Author Archives: Drummond Reed

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About Drummond Reed

Internet entrepreneur in identity, personal data, and governance frameworks

Virtual Rights Institute

Posted on 9/3/2005 by Drummond Reed

Jaco Aizenman, an XDI.ORG trustee, has helped found the Virtual Rights Institute (VRI). As he writes me: VRI is inviting everyone that wants a metasystem become a reality in a way that the individual is empowered. “Everyone” includes people from … Continue reading →

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Mary and Phil on I-Names

Posted on 9/1/2005 by Drummond Reed

My sparcity of posts in August equates directly to the intensity of work going on right now on the XRI 2.0 specifications at OASIS. After the XRI 2.0 Committee Draft 01 specifications were approved by the XRI Technical Committee (TC) … Continue reading →

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Opinity & Reputation

Posted on 8/12/2005 by Drummond Reed

Bill Washburn, a friend since he became involved with XDI.ORG in late 2000, has joined Opinity and is a primary driver of their new blog. If you haven’t seen Opinity, check them out – to the best of my knowledge … Continue reading →

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Keeping Up with Owen

Posted on 8/9/2005 by Drummond Reed

Owen Davis, co-founder and president of Identity Commons, has switched his blog from http://blog.whatbox.biz to the new Identity Commons community blog at http://news.idcommons.net. But the bigger news is that: this is one of the first i-name enabled blogs, i.e., it … Continue reading →

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Clay Shirky & Open Tagging

Posted on 8/9/2005 by Drummond Reed

A conversation with Stowe Boyd reminded my of Clay Shirky’s recent piece called “Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags“. I can’t recommend this highly enough to anyone interested in open tagging. Clay makes a great case why the … Continue reading →

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Adoption Hurdle for Open Tagging

Posted on 8/8/2005 by Drummond Reed

Stowe Boyd makes a good point about the key adoption hurdle for open tagging: However, the assertion that we can start merrily open tagging (tra la) with XRIs fails one critical test: I would like to have taggregators like Technorati … Continue reading →

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GoingOn Network

Posted on 8/2/2005 by Drummond Reed

Whew! You go away for a few weeks and its amazing how much happens. I just got caught up with Marc Canter’s GoingOn Network announcement and the fact that he’ll be using XRI/XDI (along with SXIP, OpenID, and Microsoft’s proposed … Continue reading →

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URNs, XRIs, and Open Tagging

Posted on 8/2/2005 by Drummond Reed

In response to my post yesterday on using XRIs for “open tagging”, Darren Chamberlain had this comment: I wonder why simply using urn: URIs is not sufficient to identify a tag. From your example, the Thai tag could be: <a … Continue reading →

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Mea culpa – Gabe was there first!

Posted on 8/2/2005 by Drummond Reed

In my previous post I summarized a way to use XRIs for “open tagging” of blog entries and other content due to numerous pings from other bloggers about this subject — only to find out that my XRI TC co-chair … Continue reading →

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Open Tagging

Posted on 8/1/2005 by Drummond Reed

I just added a new category called “Open Tagging” because I’ve been having so many discussions with XRI-savvy bloggers (starting with Kaliya Hamlin and Mary Hodder) about how XRIs might be a solution for an open, distributed way of tagging … Continue reading →

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Internet Identity Workshop

Posted on 8/1/2005 by Drummond Reed

Just back from the longest vacation of my modern working life, and just in time for good news: Phil Windley has announced an Internet Identity Workshop organized by himself, Doc Searls, Kaliya Hamlin, and myself. It grew out of the … Continue reading →

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Another Call to Action

Posted on 7/13/2005 by Drummond Reed

Kim Cameron published a great synopsis of a WSJ summary of a recent Gartner Group study that shows quantitatively how much the explosing of phishing, pharming, and spamming is affecting everyday user behaviour. In short, the problem of steadily degrading … Continue reading →

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The Sixth Corollary of Identifiers

Posted on 7/1/2005 by Drummond Reed

[This is the sixth of seven proposed “Corollaries of Identifiers” to Kim Cameron’s Laws of Identity.] Kim’s Sixth Law is one of the most interesting, particularly from an HMI (human-machine interaction) standpoint: 6. The Law of Human Integration A unifying … Continue reading →

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Doc frames the key questions

Posted on 6/6/2005 by Drummond Reed

Doc Searls has nicely framed the key questions involved with Microsoft’s proposed identity metasystem architecture. He closes with: So, here’s the first big question: Does the metasystem require adoption of SOAP and the whole WS-* suite of protocols (or whatever … Continue reading →

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XDI and Homeland Security

Posted on 5/19/2005 by Drummond Reed

I haven’t blogged much about XDI yet, in part because it’s not as far along in the standardization process at OASIS as XRI. This will start changing as the first early XDI data sharing applications start surfacing (hint hint). In … Continue reading →

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I-Names: Some Practical Answers

Posted on 5/16/2005 by Drummond Reed

Attendees at DIDW 2005 last week received a free 50-year global personal i-name (an “=name”) courtesy of Identity Commons. This is part of the early i-name registration program also sponsored by XDI.ORG, 2idi (i-broker for the program), Cordance (my employer), … Continue reading →

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Key talks at DIDW 2005

Posted on 5/15/2005 by Drummond Reed

A quick note before it fades from memory: three of the best talks at DIDW 2005 were Kim Cameron’s summary of the Seven Laws of Identity; Jamie Lewis’s annual state-of-the-industry appraisal; and Scott Cantor’s overview of the Shibboleth effort. Kim … Continue reading →

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Foxtrot on Wikipedia

Posted on 5/15/2005 by Drummond Reed

Leave to Eugene Kim (of PurpleWiki fame) to spot this Foxtrot about Wikipedia. You know it’s becoming mainstream when Foxtrot starts mentioning it…

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I-Name/LID Interop Demo

Posted on 5/11/2005 by Drummond Reed

Another Digital ID World news item from Owen Davis, Identity Commons president: The folks at ooTao have built a demo version of i-names interoperating with the LID protocol. Ff you go to the ooTao demo page you can: 1) create … Continue reading →

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Constitutional Amendment Recognizing Digital Identity

Posted on 5/11/2005 by Drummond Reed

I just received the following in email from Jaco Aizenman, XDI.ORG trustee: On May 9, ten Costa Rican Congresswomen/men presented a Constitutional amendment to add a new human right to the Bill of Rights (derechos fundamentales): the right of having … Continue reading →

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