Category Archives: I-brokers

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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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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XRI and I-Names: The Good, The Bad, and The Unfinished

Posted on 12/19/2006 by Drummond Reed

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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Paul Madsen on OpenID & SAML Convergence

Posted on 11/10/2006 by Drummond Reed

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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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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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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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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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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