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Dear midPoint community,<br>
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Humanity has been exploring Mars since 1960. With its 38% gravity of
the Earth’s, thin yet protective atmosphere and day-night rhythm
very similar to ours, it is believed that Mars is one of Earth’s
closest habitable neighbors in our solar system. Next logical step
after Mars exploration is a permanent settlement and building new
society. And with new society, new identity management and identity
governance needs arise.<br>
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Thanks to midScale, a project funded by European Commission
Initiative that significantly improves the scalability, midPoint is
ready to go multiplanetary. Our plans move so much forward you need
light years to measure the distance. Joining first expeditions,
midPoint will provide essential infrastructure in the first
colonies, and later countries on Mars.<br>
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Although the fluctuation among colonists on Mars is likely to be
quite low, there is still a need to manage access permissions for
variety of jobs and responsibilities in the colony. Every job is
mission-critical.<br>
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There will be technological challenges. The Earth-Mars round-trip
time varies between 6 minutes to 45 minutes. This is not entirely
real-time communication. Fortunately, midPoint has pioneered
asynchronous communication technology, being able to handle such
long communication delays. Despite that, keeping databases
synchronized across vast space distances is not going to be any easy
task. However, midPoint has communicated with an assortment of
legacy systems in the past, including some pieces that would shine
in a museum collection. After such experience, deep space
communication seems perfectly feasible.<br>
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There will be challenges, but there is also potential – especially
in case that life on Mars is found. The scale of the identity
management platform may need to grow substantially in that case.
Even if life on Mars is not found, there still will be a lot of
robotic identities to manage. As robots get more intelligent, they
may develop a personality traits and talents, making the task of
their management not unlike to task of managing people.<br>
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To greet the future completely, we are preparing midPoint to dive
into the unknown and reach for the stars. Although the exact
technologies of interstellar travel are not yet known, our
architects are already preparing for the future. We are
experimenting with a variety of potential futuristic technologies in
our laboratories, to be ready at the time when they will be needed.<br>
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Our ambition goes beyond our galaxy. Milky Way is bound to collide
with Andromeda Galaxy in about 4.5 billion years. This may provide
some long-term potential, very likely bringing new identities that
need to be managed.<br>
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<p>We hope you are ready for the future, as the first human
expedition is just years away from now!</p>
<p>(Reposted from <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://evolveum.com/per-identitam-ad-astra-we-are-going-multiplanetary/">Evolveum
blog</a>)</p>
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<pre class="western" lang="en-US">Veronika Kolpascikova
<span lang="en-US">Marketing Specialist</span>
<span lang="en-US">evolveum.com</span></pre>
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