Author Archives: Drummond Reed

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About Drummond Reed

Internet entrepreneur in identity, personal data, and governance frameworks

XRD Begins

Posted on 11/30/2008 by Drummond Reed

For most people, watching the evolution of technical specifications is like watching a glacier move. To those of us living the process, though, there can be a great deal of drama to it — in fact it’s much more like … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia: The Auto-Matching Contribution

Posted on 11/15/2008 by Drummond Reed

I could go on for hours about the value of Wikipedia to every person on this planet. But let me go right to the bottom line: take a few seconds to show your own appreciation for by making a donation. … Continue reading →

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Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist

Posted on 11/15/2008 by Drummond Reed

Whenever I find myself recommending a book more than two or three times, it’s easier to just put a link here and point people at it. It’s definitely time to do that for Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist. It’s … Continue reading →

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Now We Will

Posted on 11/4/2008 by Drummond Reed

I don’t think I’ve ever made a political post in this blog, but tonight is an exception. We’ve never had an election like this. In my lifetime, I’ve never seen one man and his family and his campaign have such … Continue reading →

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Firefox, Are You Listening?

Posted on 9/26/2008 by Drummond Reed

Pam Dingle has a wonderful suggestion about how Firefox should proceed with automatic updates. Those of us building identity selector technology that integrates closely with browsers need stable browsers to work with. That’s always tough after a major release, but … Continue reading →

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Nat Sakimura on OpenID and XRI

Posted on 9/23/2008 by Drummond Reed

Nat Sakimura, who is quietly implementing real user-centric identity solutions in the Japanese market while many others are still talking about them, has posted his concise reasoning why XRI abstract identifiers are the the only really safe identifiers to use … Continue reading →

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Fall IIW: Don't Miss It

Posted on 9/20/2008 by Drummond Reed

I was just telling a colleague in the identity industry that so many meetings are being planned for the Fall IIW, Nov. 10-12 in Mountain View, CA, that I’m not sure that there will be any time for anything else. … Continue reading →

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XRI in a Nutshell

Posted on 9/6/2008 by Drummond Reed

Someday I’m going to write a book about primary challenge with disruptive technologies: they are always starved for resources. In fact, you could argue this chicken-or-egg problem is what defines a disruptive technology: it can’t attract enough development resources until … Continue reading →

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Eve Finds Another Intersection

Posted on 9/4/2008 by Drummond Reed

I’m going to start referring to her as the Venn Queen. Eve Maler has done another Venn diagram, this time to show the relationship of whole areas of the “user-centric” sphere of activities. Going into Digital ID World next week, … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Portability, General, I-Cards, Information cards, OpenID, Privacy, R-Cards, Relationship cards, Social Web, VRM, XDI | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Identity Happens with Marty Schleiff

Posted on 8/11/2008 by Drummond Reed

Boeing has long been one of the most progressive companies when it comes to identity management and how it can enable new value chains in a large ecosystem. Marty Schleiff is one of the reasons. I’ve worked with him extensively … Continue reading →

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Phil Windley on Relationship Providers

Posted on 8/6/2008 by Drummond Reed

Phil Windley has an uncanny ability to size up new technologies in a single bound. Read his take on relationship providers and how far they can go beyond the role of “identity providers” (a term I have never liked since … Continue reading →

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Robert Pirsig Explains Vacation Zen

Posted on 8/5/2008 by Drummond Reed

Some 34 years after it was published and 20 years after my last (fifth) reading, Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance remains the book that has has the biggest influence on my life. I took my old … Continue reading →

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Vacation Beckons

Posted on 7/20/2008 by Drummond Reed

Whoever thought we’d be using blogs for vacation notices? But until we have real Internet-wide presence service, it seems much more sane than problem-prone email bounce-backs. So count on me to be completely offline (and I mean completely) until August … Continue reading →

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Joe Nails it Open

Posted on 7/13/2008 by Drummond Reed

Joe Andrieu nails another super post (where DOES he find the time to write/draw all of these???), this time about what it means for a platform to really be open. My favorite part is that he doesn’t just do it … Continue reading →

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Principles of VRM

Posted on 7/9/2008 by Drummond Reed

Doc Searls has done a very succinct post on the Principles of VRM in preparation for the VRM Workshop next week in Boston. You can’t read it and not see how closely VRM is related to r-cards (relationship cards) and … Continue reading →

Posted in Higgins, Identity Rights Agreements, R-Cards, Relationship cards, VRM, XDI | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Relationship Cards (R-Cards)

Posted on 7/1/2008 by Drummond Reed

So much for the naive thought that I’ have time at the Burton Catalyst conference last week to finally blog about two subjects near and dear to my heart that I knew would be covered at the conference. It backfired … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Portability, General, Higgins, I-Cards, Identity Rights Agreements, Information cards, R-Cards, Relationship cards, Social Web, VRM, XDI, XRDS | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Pamela Dingle: My Favorite Bio

Posted on 6/25/2008 by Drummond Reed

The new announced Information Card Foundation has nine community board members, and I’m pleased to report they all have a keen sense of humor. Case in point: Pam Dingle’s bio on the Board of Directors page: Pamela Dingle Pamela Dingle … Continue reading →

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The Information Card Foundation: Helping Scale Mount Identity

Posted on 6/24/2008 by Drummond Reed

YAF? (“Yet Another Foundation?”) Some in the identity community have had that reaction to the announcement of the Information Card Foundation (ICF) today at the start of the Burton Catalyst conference in San Diego. As one of two members of … Continue reading →

Posted in CardSpace, General, I-Cards, Identity Commons, OpenID, Relationship cards, SAML, Social Web | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Joe Andrieu Answers Questions about VRM

Posted on 6/14/2008 by Drummond Reed

If you haven’t heard of VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) yet, you will soon. Not that it will be an overnight phenomena – that’s one of the points Joe Andrieu makes in his mini-FAQ about VRM. But read Joe’s post to … Continue reading →

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Paul Madsen Sums It Up

Posted on 6/3/2008 by Drummond Reed

At the last Internet Identity Workshop, I gave Paul Madsen a community award for keenest identity wit. Everybody agreed he wins hands down. For a taste see his appraisal of the W3C recommendation on XRI.

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