Author Archives: Drummond Reed

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Internet entrepreneur in identity, personal data, and governance frameworks

I-Names Get Real

Posted on 6/20/2006 by Drummond Reed

I should have suspected this — we finally get to the biggest inflection point in the evolution of i-names and I’m too busy to blog about it. Oh well, that’s life. In less than two hours we finally flip the … Continue reading →

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OpenID 2.0: Convergence Continues

Posted on 6/19/2006 by Drummond Reed

Internet infrastructure is always a story of convergence. Last fall the OpenID and LID URL-based authentication protocols came together around an interoperable lightweight discovery format called Yadis. Yadis used the XML-based XRDS document format developed by the OASIS XRI Technical … Continue reading →

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XDI.org ready at last

Posted on 6/14/2006 by Drummond Reed

When I can’t do a post for a month you know something’s up (or down). But this one’s up: XDI.org has finally finished and approved the Global Services Specification (GSS) that governs the operation of XDI.org’s global XRI i-name and … Continue reading →

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Awesome IIW2006

Posted on 5/7/2006 by Drummond Reed

I just got back from Internet Identity Workshop 2006A (the “A” because a second one is planned later this year). I want to echo the praises others (Phil Windley, Kim Cameron) have heaped on it. In particular, Kaliya was amazing. … Continue reading →

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I-Tags Getting Smarter

Posted on 4/30/2006 by Drummond Reed

It’s been six months since I’ve posted anything about i-tags but the spec has been steadily evolving. Working Draft 03 has been posted on the i-tag wiki and there are some great new features. Quick highlights: The underlying RDF model … Continue reading →

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I-Brokers: the ISPs of Identity

Posted on 4/14/2006 by Drummond Reed

Phil Windley just posted a good assessment of what is becoming one of the key topics in the growth of interoperable Internet identity infrastructure — i-brokers and their business models. Phil makes the point: There will be hundreds of identity … Continue reading →

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Registering with Opinity

Posted on 3/24/2006 by Drummond Reed

Time to start “claiming my blog” — this one for testing with Opinity’s third-party reputation aggregation service. The following is what I need to paste in to authenticate by blog there: Click the link to check my Opinity reputation! [More … Continue reading →

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Yadis 1.0 and XRI Resolution 2.0

Posted on 3/24/2006 by Drummond Reed

When this blog is quiet for a long period, it’s usually because of specs, specs, specs. This winter has seemed like one long spec drive, and it’s not over yet. But we have reached two major milestones: XRI Resolution 2.0 … Continue reading →

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Higgins vs. InfoCard is bunk

Posted on 2/28/2006 by Drummond Reed

Objectivity of the press? If you read this CNET article you’d think the Higgins project from Social Physics and Parity is a competitor to Microsoft’s InfoCard architecture. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact the two have been … Continue reading →

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More on Identity Rights Agreements

Posted on 2/4/2006 by Drummond Reed

Paul Madsen makes another very good point about identity rights agreements (hmm, the acronym is going to end up “IRA”): This work would be really interesting & valuable. Identity agreements and their identifiers could be common across particular identity systems … Continue reading →

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Identity Rights Agreements

Posted on 1/20/2006 by Drummond Reed

The term “identity rights agreements” was coined by Phil Windley, Doc Searls, and friends in a discussion about identity after OSCON last summer. The full story is in a blog post with that title by Phil. At the Internet Identity … Continue reading →

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Great essay on the impact of the net

Posted on 12/23/2005 by Drummond Reed

Every so often you read a blog post that’s so good you just have to blog about it right away. Here’s one from Grant McCracken titled: “Internet 2.0: The Economic, Social and Cultural Consequences of the New Internet.” It’s not … Continue reading →

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XRIs and Privacy: Anonymous Single Sign On

Posted on 12/11/2005 by Drummond Reed

Radovan Semančík recently wrote about the privacy concerns with global unique identifiers in his blog post called Global Troubles. He points out that the same issues arises whether those global unique identifiers are URLs (OpenID, LID, and now SXIP) or … Continue reading →

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Identity Informational Morning

Posted on 12/6/2005 by Drummond Reed

See the Internet Identity Workshop wiki for info about a morning meeting for developers to be held at Cafe Won Ton in the Fulsom neighborhood of S.F. next Monday, 2005/12/12, before the Syndicate conference. It’ll be a great chance to … Continue reading →

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YADIS Going Strong

Posted on 12/5/2005 by Drummond Reed

Johannes Ernst posts a summary of the YADIS meeting held in San Fransisco last week (which I couldn’t attend in person but dialed in for). It was one of those classic situations where the common need to interoperate overcame the … Continue reading →

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John Udell on the Dataweb

Posted on 12/2/2005 by Drummond Reed

Doc Searls gave me a ping that Jon Udell was starting to write about the Dataweb. His article in Infoworld is titled, “The two way data web” and it talks about how folks like Bill Gates and Adam Bosworth are … Continue reading →

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XRI 2.0: The Vote is On

Posted on 12/1/2005 by Drummond Reed

(One funny thing I’ve wondered about the blogosphere: is it like a real neighborhood, where your presence or absence is noticed? I suppose on the busier blogs it is; maybe less so if you don’t blog as often…) Anyway, I’ve … Continue reading →

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He Crys Ubiquity

Posted on 10/5/2005 by Drummond Reed

Craig Burton makes a highly cogent point about widespread adoption of Internet identity infrastructure. So cogent that I’m going to repeat the whole thing here: (To a Marley regaee beat) I, I ,I cry ubiquity… Ubiquity rules. Identity 2.0 is … Continue reading →

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XRI, XDI, and Web Services

Posted on 10/2/2005 by Drummond Reed

I just returned from an inspiring meeting with a number of Identity Gang folks about the legal, social, and policy foundations of an identity metasystem. One of the most eye-catching presentations was Dick Hardt’s video of his OSCON talk on … Continue reading →

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DataTao is coming

Posted on 9/10/2005 by Drummond Reed

Andy Dale has started to blog about where all this XDI stuff is going at ooTao: DataTao. DataTao is (to my knowledge) the first pure data sharing service. In other words, any individual or organization with an i-name will be … Continue reading →

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