Category Archives: General

The Personal XDI Server

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

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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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Identity Woman and Identity 2.0

Identity Woman joins the fray! If you haven’t met Kaliya, you must be in the “seventh degree” — I have never met a more potent networking force in all my life (ahh, maybe Doc, but these two were born of … Continue reading

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Personal Digital Identity

Simon Grice has put up a blog aggregator called Personal Digital Identity (which Simon calls “PDI”). I get the clear sense that since last October’s Digital Identity World, PDI has been coming into its own as a distinct subset of … Continue reading

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It's all about linking…

In my first post I said “it’s all about naming”. And it is. But it’s also all about linking. The two are inseparable, as I hope to explore here in various ways over the next weeks, months, years. But to … Continue reading

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It's all about naming…

Danny Weitzner of W3C once told me that when he arrived there as Technology and Society Domain Leader, one of the technical staff gave him a tutorial about Web architecture and said, “It’s very simple, really — it’s all about … Continue reading

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