The document provides an introduction and agenda for the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) meeting on May 18, 2010. It discusses the shared history, context, understanding and language that has developed within the identity community over many years of collaboration. This includes early efforts like the Identity Gang lexicon and the Laws of Identity. It outlines the current state of technologies like OAuth, OpenID, SAML and the evolving "hammer stack". The document emphasizes the community's continued collaboration through various standards bodies and events to further an open, user-centric identity layer for the internet.