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Category Archives: General
Identity Meme
If you want to follow the real down-and-dirty of what the identity layer will become, catch Jeff Hodges blog at identitymeme.org. Before he joined NeuStar two years ago (lured by Peter Davis among others), Jeff was with Oblix and Sun … Continue reading
CardSpace and OpenID Starting the Convergence Dance?
Earlier this month Kim Cameron starting blogging about some of the phishing concerns he’s had about OpenID that he and Mike Jones have shared with myself and other members of the OpenID community privately since Digital ID World last September. … Continue reading
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SAML and OpenID at the Convergence Dance
Eve Maler called it a “swirling nexus”. That’s appropriate for both the weather and the dance of discussions at an informal meeting last week between SAMListas (Eve’s term) and OpenIDear’s (my term) hosted by JanRain last week in Portland. Eve … Continue reading
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The Golden Spike Meeting of Higgins and XDI
May 3, 2006, mid-afternoon. The second Internet Identity Workshop had just wrapped up. It was so thick with sessions and discussions that Paul Trevithick, Andy Dale, and I just kept passing each other in the halls saying, “We need to … Continue reading
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Bob Wyman Updates it to Zooko's Pyramid
You have to be not just an identity geek, but a dedicated addressing geek, to have even heard of Zooko’s Triangle, let alone understand how elegant an analysis it is of the tradeoffs involved with global identifiers (globally-unique, human-meaningful, decentralized: … Continue reading
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VRM: VROOOM!
Many of us in Internet identity like to joke about how we all work for Doc Searls, since he’s the one who initiated the Identity Gang and the whole current movement towards user-centric identity. But we may all seriously end … Continue reading
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An XDI New Year's Present
For months now I’ve craved the time to write up a simple tutorial on XDI that can quickly show folks already familiar with Internet identity and trusted data sharing why those of us working on XDI are so excited about … Continue reading
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The Persistence of Persistence
This play on Salvador Dali’s famous painting “The Persistence of Time” is to point out a principle that seems to recur with every evolutionary step of Internet identity architecture: the fundamental importance of persistent identifiers. For example, last week on … Continue reading
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XRI and I-Names: The Good, The Bad, and The Unfinished
I hadn’t blogged yet about the excellent session Salim Ismail led on Creative Uses of I-Names at Internet Identity Workshop two weeks ago, but Phil Windley did, and then yesterday he posted a longer piece about XRI and i-names on … Continue reading
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Mike Jones on Cardspace & OpenID Synergy
Ever since the last Internet Identity Workshop I’ve been running like mad trying to finish spec assignments, catch up on email, and prep for the holidays. Not to mention catch up on blog posts (Why anyone calls December “the holidays” … Continue reading
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User Experience in the OpenID and Cardspace Paradigms
Aldo Castañeda has just posted a new installment of his The Story of Digital Identity podcast series which will be the first of several about user experience for OpenID. It’s a lively discussion between Johannes Ernst, Chris Messina, and myself … Continue reading
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Paul Madsen on OpenID & SAML Convergence
Paul Madsen, a key Liberty architect, has posted a wonderful insight about the relationship of OpenID and SAML. He plots both of them against the axes of: The selectivity of an OpenID relying party (a website that accepts OpenID logins, … Continue reading
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Eve riffs on SAML, OpenID, XRI, and privacy
In my book Eve Maler’s about as cool as it gets. XMLGrrl was not only one of the inventors of XML, but deeply understands many of its richest applications from DocBook to SAML. And she’s been a pioneer in applying … Continue reading
Blog-Driven Micromarketing
I receive a contact request through my contact page today to look over a new published guide to preventing identity theft at the Your Credit Advisor blog by Jimmy Atkinson. Not knowing the site, I didn’t know what to expect, … Continue reading
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Identity in context
“Context” has become the second-most-commonly used word in the identity industry after “identity” itself. And rightly so, since its practically mantra now that identity only exists in context, and — at least for people — is so incredibly context-sensitive. Paul … Continue reading
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XDI Round Two
As I found myself explaining to a number of folks at Digital ID World this week, the XDI Technical Committee at OASIS has been relatively quiet this spring and summer while so many of the TC members worked on: a) … Continue reading
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Doc sucks
I want you to know right away that I’m writing this post to boost Doc‘s Google suckiness rating. It was revealed during his closing keynote at Digital ID World today that his suckiness rating is only 1/3 of that of … Continue reading
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The Limited Liability Persona (LLP)
In Jamie Lewis‘s talk at Digital ID World this morning, one idea stood out as a real mind-bender: the Limited Liability Persona (LLP). Jamie was careful to give credit to several folks from the Burton Group who came up with … Continue reading
Microsoft makes the promise
Today Microsoft made good on the promise that Kim Cameron and Mike Jones made to the Identity Gang members many months ago: that the IPR necessary for CardSpace (formerly InfoCard) would be made available so that anyone, on any platform, … Continue reading
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I-names for anything you want
I-name forwarding service is finally here! At last we’re tapping some of the power of XRI resolution infrastructure — and demonstrating why I named this blog “=drummond”. Following is the new i-name of my blog: http://xri.net/=drummond/(+blog) And following is the … Continue reading
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