Category Archives: General

XDI Link Contracts

Posted on 11/25/2007 by Drummond Reed

Identity Woman (Kaliya Hamlin) posts about why current “friend formats” like FOAF and XFN don’t satisfy the need for privacy and personal control of data that she – and many other women – want before they are comfortable sharing personal … Continue reading →

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Paul Madsen on the i-card taxonomy

Posted on 11/21/2007 by Drummond Reed

Paul Madsen has done a nicely illustrated post on the taxonomy of i-cards supported by the Higgins project. He makes a great point about how SAML cards (“s-cards”) could fit in, both in terms of third-party cards and self-issued cards. … Continue reading →

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It's that time again — Internet Identity Workshop 2007B

Posted on 11/12/2007 by Drummond Reed

I’ve never been part of a self-organizing community as large or as effective as the Internet Identity Workshop. If you care about the emerging user-centric identity layer for the Internet – or even if you only only care about the … Continue reading →

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Higgins speaks SAML

Posted on 10/30/2007 by Drummond Reed

Paul Trevithick just posted about a significant new step for the Higgins Project – the first contributions adding support for SAML 2.0. At first blush that may not seem surprising – SAML is the granddaddy of modern Internet identity protocols … Continue reading →

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Recommending the Recommender

Posted on 10/8/2007 by Drummond Reed

I just noticed that Paul Madsen made a post about my recommendation that folks check out Joe Andrieu’s comments on the MS HealthVault announcement. Paul got my attention by titling his post, “Drummond, it’s Hailstorm“. Just to clarify: I wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Securing Very Important Data: Your Own

Posted on 10/8/2007 by Drummond Reed

Denise Caruso published a wonderful article in Sunday’s New York Times on a subject very close to my heart: how to best go about protecting personal identity, profile, and preference data as new technologies like OpenID, Higgins, and XDI make … Continue reading →

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Joe Andrieu on Microsoft's Health Care Record Initiative

Posted on 10/5/2007 by Drummond Reed

Joe Andrieu, one of the leaders of the VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) community, has posted a good initial assessment of Microsoft’s first foray (post-Passport) of storing personal data for consumers via their Health Care Record initiative. It’s well worth reading … Continue reading →

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Social Web User's Bill of Rights

Posted on 9/12/2007 by Drummond Reed

Last week I mentioned the Social Web User’s Bill of Rights that was drafted for the Data Sharing Summit last Friday and Saturday. When it was first posted, it included the phrase, “ownership”, as in “user’s should own their personal … Continue reading →

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The Data Sharing Summit: Problems and Solutions

Posted on 9/7/2007 by Drummond Reed

Certain events scream out for live blogging. The Data Sharing Summit is one of them. So these are my notes from first half of Day 1. (Then why are they being posted at midnight, you ask? Because there was too … Continue reading →

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The Value of Vacation Mind

Posted on 9/5/2007 by Drummond Reed

No, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. But this has been a summer of big transitions — big enough that it will take several posts to cover it all. Yet on this, my first day “back to … Continue reading →

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Joe Andrieu on the User as the Point of Integration

Posted on 6/14/2007 by Drummond Reed

Joe Andrieu, one of the pioneers of the VRM movement, wrote an inspired blog post on how not just VRM, but user-centric identity as a whole, can enable a radical rethinking of how systems integration can work. If you put … Continue reading →

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Phil Windley on XRDS

Posted on 5/31/2007 by Drummond Reed

I just added XRDS (Extensible Resource Descriptor Sequence) as a new category on my blog because this simple XML document format, created by the OASIS XRI Technical Committee to provide XRI resolution metadata and subsequently adopted by Yadis, is starting … Continue reading →

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Semantically Meaningful Identifiers: What a Concept!

Posted on 5/8/2007 by Drummond Reed

I haven’t blogged in a month because I’m so heads down with XRI 2.1 specs, prep for IIW (next week), and the business side of user-centric identity (yes, this really needs to turn into an industry if it is to … Continue reading →

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Mike Jones Issues Himself

Posted on 4/5/2007 by Drummond Reed

Mike Jones, anchor of the Microsoft Cardspace team along with Kim Cameron & crew, has moved into the blogosphere. I’ve referenced his home page in MS Research (where he used to be) in many blog posts, but now I can … Continue reading →

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Eve Gets the Venn of Identity

Posted on 4/3/2007 by Drummond Reed

Speaking of great posts and great pictures, I think Eve Maler’s recent Venn of Identity diagram is the best thumbnail picture of “Internet identity space” I’ve ever seen. She credits both Johannes Ernst and Paul Madsen for the progenitors. Eve’s … Continue reading →

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Talking XRI with Phil Windley and Scott Lemon

Posted on 4/3/2007 by Drummond Reed

Last week I had a long talk about XRI with Phil Windley and Scott Lemon that they just posted as an IT Conversations podcast. If you ever wanted to know the full XRI story from start to finish (verbally, at … Continue reading →

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Victor Finally Writing Turtles All the Way Down

Posted on 4/3/2007 by Drummond Reed

Victor Grey, co-founder of i-broker 2idi with Fen Labalme, has always been one of my favorite cats in the identity universe, but you need to know him well enough to coax out his deep wisdom. Now that he’s blogging, you … Continue reading →

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Identity Commons 2.0 and the Chief Catalyst

Posted on 3/8/2007 by Drummond Reed

Yesterday the long-simmering process of birthing the second-generation Identity Commons reached a key milestone: the Stewards Council reached consensus on moving forward with formal incorporation (in Florida to save money, since Steward Dan Perry has volunteered to serve as counsel), … Continue reading →

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OpenID and CardSpace Dance Takes the Next Step

Posted on 2/6/2007 by Drummond Reed

User-centric identity infrastructure just took another key step forward today: Janrain, Sxip, Verisign, and Microsoft announced they will all be working together to help OpenID users get the benefits of CardSpace and vice versa. Links to the blog announcements: Kim … Continue reading →

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I-Names, OpenID, and Cardspace

Posted on 2/6/2007 by Drummond Reed

Kim Cameron has done another great post about how Cardspace and OpenID can work together, and specifically about the potential relationship of information cards and XRI i-names and i-numbers. This continued a thread that started with a post I did … Continue reading →

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