John Fontana of Network World just published a nice article in CIO Today called Extending Identity Management’s Realm that points out the central role identifiers play in identity management infrastructure, especially when it is extended beyond people to “all things”.

This is exactly the job XRIs were designed for, as I’ll discuss more once the Introduction to XRIs publication from the OASIS XRI TCis ready next week (the XRI 2.0 vote is now scheduled for Monday the 14th).