Category Archives: General

Bob Blakely: What is Privacy?

Posted on 9/12/2006 by Drummond Reed

This is the title of Bob’s talk at Digital ID World today. Now that he’s at the Burton Group, Bob can really run with his paradigm-inverting views about information systems as they really work in society. Bob answers the question, … Continue reading →

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$5 i-names — Now That's Practical

Posted on 9/12/2006 by Drummond Reed

I haven’t posted for a month. Beside’s the fact that it was August (a sacred month in Seattle), it was also prep for Digital ID World this week in Santa Clara, where XDI.org-accredited i-brokers are introducing support for OpenID 1.1, … Continue reading →

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Kvetch with Kveton

Posted on 8/10/2006 by Drummond Reed

Scott Kveton is not only the new CEO of JanRain (he was formerly the head of the OSU Open Source Lab), but he’s started a new blog that’s rolling a mile a minute. JanRain is the leading developer of OpenID libraries … Continue reading →

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Johannes on XRI resolution

Posted on 8/10/2006 by Drummond Reed

Johannes Ernst just created an excellent blog post out of an email dialog he and I had about the “big picture” of XRI resolution. It’s true that the concept of an identifier resolution network based on HTTP that parallels the … Continue reading →

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More on I-Cards and I-Names

Posted on 7/27/2006 by Drummond Reed

Paul Trevithick let me know that the notes from the i-card session at the Berkman Identity Open Space last month are posted at http://wiki.idmashup.org/I-cards. I continue to find it very helpful to make the distinction between address-based identity and card-based identity. It … Continue reading →

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INITECH Goes Live with I-Services

Posted on 7/12/2006 by Drummond Reed

INITECH is the first XDI.org-accredited i-broker to provide three i-services for their i-name customer — they just went live with SAML-based i-name Single Sign-On (i-SSO), Contact and Forwarding services. You can see these services at work with their own i-name, @greenbutton. You can … Continue reading →

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I-Cards: Convergence on a Metaphor

Posted on 7/12/2006 by Drummond Reed

At the Berkman Identity Mashup two weeks ago, at an open space session proposed by Paul Trevithick (“Professor Higgins” ;-), the Identity Gang reached consensus on a fundamental metaphor for interoperable identity systems: the i-card. This consensus was rooted on … Continue reading →

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Inflection (and Reflection) Points

Posted on 7/12/2006 by Drummond Reed

Every so often we reach what seems to be one of those special inflection points in time: a period that acts like a gravity field for change. June was such a month for me. First my oldest son graduated from … Continue reading →

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I-Names Get Real

Posted on 6/20/2006 by Drummond Reed

I should have suspected this — we finally get to the biggest inflection point in the evolution of i-names and I’m too busy to blog about it. Oh well, that’s life. In less than two hours we finally flip the … Continue reading →

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OpenID 2.0: Convergence Continues

Posted on 6/19/2006 by Drummond Reed

Internet infrastructure is always a story of convergence. Last fall the OpenID and LID URL-based authentication protocols came together around an interoperable lightweight discovery format called Yadis. Yadis used the XML-based XRDS document format developed by the OASIS XRI Technical … Continue reading →

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XDI.org ready at last

Posted on 6/14/2006 by Drummond Reed

When I can’t do a post for a month you know something’s up (or down). But this one’s up: XDI.org has finally finished and approved the Global Services Specification (GSS) that governs the operation of XDI.org’s global XRI i-name and … Continue reading →

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Awesome IIW2006

Posted on 5/7/2006 by Drummond Reed

I just got back from Internet Identity Workshop 2006A (the “A” because a second one is planned later this year). I want to echo the praises others (Phil Windley, Kim Cameron) have heaped on it. In particular, Kaliya was amazing. … Continue reading →

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I-Tags Getting Smarter

Posted on 4/30/2006 by Drummond Reed

It’s been six months since I’ve posted anything about i-tags but the spec has been steadily evolving. Working Draft 03 has been posted on the i-tag wiki and there are some great new features. Quick highlights: The underlying RDF model … Continue reading →

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I-Brokers: the ISPs of Identity

Posted on 4/14/2006 by Drummond Reed

Phil Windley just posted a good assessment of what is becoming one of the key topics in the growth of interoperable Internet identity infrastructure — i-brokers and their business models. Phil makes the point: There will be hundreds of identity … Continue reading →

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Registering with Opinity

Posted on 3/24/2006 by Drummond Reed

Time to start “claiming my blog” — this one for testing with Opinity’s third-party reputation aggregation service. The following is what I need to paste in to authenticate by blog there: Click the link to check my Opinity reputation! [More … Continue reading →

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Yadis 1.0 and XRI Resolution 2.0

Posted on 3/24/2006 by Drummond Reed

When this blog is quiet for a long period, it’s usually because of specs, specs, specs. This winter has seemed like one long spec drive, and it’s not over yet. But we have reached two major milestones: XRI Resolution 2.0 … Continue reading →

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Higgins vs. InfoCard is bunk

Posted on 2/28/2006 by Drummond Reed

Objectivity of the press? If you read this CNET article you’d think the Higgins project from Social Physics and Parity is a competitor to Microsoft’s InfoCard architecture. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact the two have been … Continue reading →

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More on Identity Rights Agreements

Posted on 2/4/2006 by Drummond Reed

Paul Madsen makes another very good point about identity rights agreements (hmm, the acronym is going to end up “IRA”): This work would be really interesting & valuable. Identity agreements and their identifiers could be common across particular identity systems … Continue reading →

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Identity Rights Agreements

Posted on 1/20/2006 by Drummond Reed

The term “identity rights agreements” was coined by Phil Windley, Doc Searls, and friends in a discussion about identity after OSCON last summer. The full story is in a blog post with that title by Phil. At the Internet Identity … Continue reading →

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Great essay on the impact of the net

Posted on 12/23/2005 by Drummond Reed

Every so often you read a blog post that’s so good you just have to blog about it right away. Here’s one from Grant McCracken titled: “Internet 2.0: The Economic, Social and Cultural Consequences of the New Internet.” It’s not … Continue reading →

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