Author Archives: Drummond Reed

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About Drummond Reed

Internet entrepreneur in identity, personal data, and governance frameworks

The Laws "Live"

I intended to make this my first live blogging entry from Digital Identity World this week, starting with Kim Cameron’s talk on the Laws of Identity. As expected, it was packed (in fact it needed a larger room — at … Continue reading

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DIDW "Bottoms Up" Identity Meeting

As Kim notes, there will be an open meeting on “Bottoms Up” identity at the Pacific room of the San Fransisco Hyatt Embarcadero at 1pm Pacific on Monday May 9. I’ll be there as well as at DIDW all week … Continue reading

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The Fifth Corollary of Identifiers

[This is the fifth of seven proposed “Corollaries of Identifiers” to Kim Cameron’s Laws of Identity.] Kim’s Fifth Law is the one that most directly explains his use of the term “metasystem”: 5. The Law of Pluralism A universal identity … Continue reading

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Fen adds Four More Laws

Fen Labalme has published Four More Laws of Identity that adds some key additional perspectives on Kim Cameron’s original seven. Specifically, Fen covers: Freedom Decentralization Portability Transparency Well worth reading as we head into the conversations at Digital Identity World … Continue reading

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The Fourth Corollary of Identifiers

[This is the fourth of seven proposed “Corollaries of Identifiers” to Kim Cameron’s Laws of Identity.] Kim’s Fourth Law is the only one that deals directly with digital identifiers: 4. The Law of Directed Identity A universal identity system MUST … Continue reading

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The Third Corollary of Identifiers

[This is the third of seven proposed “Corollaries of Identifiers” to Kim Cameron’s Laws of Identity.] Kim’s Third Law is the one he used to explain the failure of MS Passport: 3. The Law of Fewest Parties Technical identity systems … Continue reading

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Mike Phillips on Digital Citizenship

Mike Phillips, Chairman of Frank Russell Company and one of the most progressive thinkers I know about the convergence of digital identity and the real world of commerce and government, had this to say about the Laws and the Corollaries: … Continue reading

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Andy Dale on the Second Corollary

Andy Dale sent me this comment about the Second Corollary: Drummond, you say: “[Concrete identifiers such as an email address] reveal a direct method of interacting with me (as would a phone number, fax number, IM address, postal address, etc.)” … Continue reading

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The Second Corollary of Identifiers

[Note: This is the second of seven proposed “Corollaries of Identifiers” for Kim Cameron’s Laws of Identity. See the First Corollary for more background info.] Kim’s Second Law follows closely from his First Law: 2. The Law of Minimal Disclosure … Continue reading

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Mark Baker on the First Corollary

Mark Baker, one of the “gods of REST” whose work I have referenced many times in my work on the XDI protocol at OASIS, makes some excellent points in his commentary on the First Corollary. To my contention that many … Continue reading

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The inimitable PeterD

In keeping with my pledge to introduce new links on my blogroll, herewith the inimitable Peter Davis and his Identity4All blog. Peter is part of the powerhouse tech team assembled by CTO Mark Foster at NeuStar to create the world’s … Continue reading

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First Corollary of Identifiers

Following Kim Cameron’s seven Laws of Identity, here is the first of seven “Corollaries of Identifiers”. Continue reading

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The Personal XDI Server

Is the killer app for the Dataweb the XDI watch?? Continue reading

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Comments turned off, i-name turned on

Use your i-name contact page for comments and eliminate comment spam. Continue reading

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The Tao of XDI

Andy Dale’s new “Tao of XDI” blog is ground zero for XDI developers. Continue reading

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Kim's the real thing

Eric Norlin posted a great piece about Kim Cameron as the news started to come out about InfoCards (an MS codename) this week. Kim himself explains how the story started coming out without anyone ever checking with him. I just … Continue reading

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The calm before the storm

Why so quiet of late? First because the OASIS XRI TC was completely heads-down finishing the XRI 2.0 specifications. They were unanimously approved as a Committee Draft on March 14, and now have entered a 30-day public review period (required … Continue reading

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Extending Identity Mgmt's Realm

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”. … Continue reading

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XRIs vs. URLs (Preview)

As the OASIS XRI Technical Committee heads into the final stages of completing the XRI 2.0 specifications (currently scheduled for a Committee Draft vote on March 11), I’m spending a bunch of time on the XRI Primer, the first general-audience … Continue reading

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Chris Allen & Life with Alacrity

I met Chris Allen two years ago at PlaNetwork and for the first time got the full story on how TLS (the successor to SSL) came into being. Chris is the man responsible, and after that modest accomplishment, he’s now … Continue reading

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