Author Archives: Drummond Reed

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About Drummond Reed

Internet entrepreneur in identity, personal data, and governance frameworks

XRI and I-Names: The Good, The Bad, and The Unfinished

Posted on 12/19/2006 by Drummond Reed

I hadn’t blogged yet about the excellent session Salim Ismail led on Creative Uses of I-Names at Internet Identity Workshop two weeks ago, but Phil Windley did, and then yesterday he posted a longer piece about XRI and i-names on … Continue reading →

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Mike Jones on Cardspace & OpenID Synergy

Posted on 12/19/2006 by Drummond Reed

Ever since the last Internet Identity Workshop I’ve been running like mad trying to finish spec assignments, catch up on email, and prep for the holidays. Not to mention catch up on blog posts (Why anyone calls December “the holidays” … Continue reading →

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User Experience in the OpenID and Cardspace Paradigms

Posted on 11/15/2006 by Drummond Reed

Aldo Castañeda has just posted a new installment of his The Story of Digital Identity podcast series which will be the first of several about user experience for OpenID. It’s a lively discussion between Johannes Ernst, Chris Messina, and myself … Continue reading →

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Paul Madsen on OpenID & SAML Convergence

Posted on 11/10/2006 by Drummond Reed

Paul Madsen, a key Liberty architect, has posted a wonderful insight about the relationship of OpenID and SAML. He plots both of them against the axes of: The selectivity of an OpenID relying party (a website that accepts OpenID logins, … Continue reading →

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Eve riffs on SAML, OpenID, XRI, and privacy

Posted on 10/23/2006 by Drummond Reed

In my book Eve Maler’s about as cool as it gets. XMLGrrl was not only one of the inventors of XML, but deeply understands many of its richest applications from DocBook to SAML. And she’s been a pioneer in applying … Continue reading →

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Blog-Driven Micromarketing

Posted on 10/17/2006 by Drummond Reed

I receive a contact request through my contact page today to look over a new published guide to preventing identity theft at the Your Credit Advisor blog by Jimmy Atkinson. Not knowing the site, I didn’t know what to expect, … Continue reading →

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Identity in context

Posted on 9/29/2006 by Drummond Reed

“Context” has become the second-most-commonly used word in the identity industry after “identity” itself. And rightly so, since its practically mantra now that identity only exists in context, and — at least for people — is so incredibly context-sensitive. Paul … Continue reading →

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XDI Round Two

Posted on 9/15/2006 by Drummond Reed

As I found myself explaining to a number of folks at Digital ID World this week, the XDI Technical Committee at OASIS has been relatively quiet this spring and summer while so many of the TC members worked on: a) … Continue reading →

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Doc sucks

Posted on 9/13/2006 by Drummond Reed

I want you to know right away that I’m writing this post to boost Doc‘s Google suckiness rating. It was revealed during his closing keynote at Digital ID World today that his suckiness rating is only 1/3 of that of … Continue reading →

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The Limited Liability Persona (LLP)

Posted on 9/13/2006 by Drummond Reed

In Jamie Lewis‘s talk at Digital ID World this morning, one idea stood out as a real mind-bender: the Limited Liability Persona (LLP). Jamie was careful to give credit to several folks from the Burton Group who came up with … Continue reading →

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Microsoft makes the promise

Posted on 9/12/2006 by Drummond Reed

Today Microsoft made good on the promise that Kim Cameron and Mike Jones made to the Identity Gang members many months ago: that the IPR necessary for CardSpace (formerly InfoCard) would be made available so that anyone, on any platform, … Continue reading →

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I-names for anything you want

Posted on 9/12/2006 by Drummond Reed

I-name forwarding service is finally here! At last we’re tapping some of the power of XRI resolution infrastructure — and demonstrating why I named this blog “=drummond”. Following is the new i-name of my blog: http://xri.net/=drummond/(+blog) And following is the … Continue reading →

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Bob Blakely: What is Privacy?

Posted on 9/12/2006 by Drummond Reed

This is the title of Bob’s talk at Digital ID World today. Now that he’s at the Burton Group, Bob can really run with his paradigm-inverting views about information systems as they really work in society. Bob answers the question, … Continue reading →

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$5 i-names — Now That's Practical

Posted on 9/12/2006 by Drummond Reed

I haven’t posted for a month. Beside’s the fact that it was August (a sacred month in Seattle), it was also prep for Digital ID World this week in Santa Clara, where XDI.org-accredited i-brokers are introducing support for OpenID 1.1, … Continue reading →

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Kvetch with Kveton

Posted on 8/10/2006 by Drummond Reed

Scott Kveton is not only the new CEO of JanRain (he was formerly the head of the OSU Open Source Lab), but he’s started a new blog that’s rolling a mile a minute. JanRain is the leading developer of OpenID libraries … Continue reading →

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Johannes on XRI resolution

Posted on 8/10/2006 by Drummond Reed

Johannes Ernst just created an excellent blog post out of an email dialog he and I had about the “big picture” of XRI resolution. It’s true that the concept of an identifier resolution network based on HTTP that parallels the … Continue reading →

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More on I-Cards and I-Names

Posted on 7/27/2006 by Drummond Reed

Paul Trevithick let me know that the notes from the i-card session at the Berkman Identity Open Space last month are posted at http://wiki.idmashup.org/I-cards. I continue to find it very helpful to make the distinction between address-based identity and card-based identity. It … Continue reading →

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INITECH Goes Live with I-Services

Posted on 7/12/2006 by Drummond Reed

INITECH is the first XDI.org-accredited i-broker to provide three i-services for their i-name customer — they just went live with SAML-based i-name Single Sign-On (i-SSO), Contact and Forwarding services. You can see these services at work with their own i-name, @greenbutton. You can … Continue reading →

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I-Cards: Convergence on a Metaphor

Posted on 7/12/2006 by Drummond Reed

At the Berkman Identity Mashup two weeks ago, at an open space session proposed by Paul Trevithick (“Professor Higgins” ;-), the Identity Gang reached consensus on a fundamental metaphor for interoperable identity systems: the i-card. This consensus was rooted on … Continue reading →

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Inflection (and Reflection) Points

Posted on 7/12/2006 by Drummond Reed

Every so often we reach what seems to be one of those special inflection points in time: a period that acts like a gravity field for change. June was such a month for me. First my oldest son graduated from … Continue reading →

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