Category Archives: I-Cards

The Keys to the Keys

Posted on 6/9/2011 by Drummond Reed

Craig Burton has penned another crystalline piece called How to Spot an Unnecessary Identity Fail (after his previous piece, How to Divine the Bovine, this is starting to sound like a field guide to identisaurus). His key point: we’ve had … Continue reading →

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Adding another Hat

Posted on 3/16/2009 by Drummond Reed

When I told a friend that I was “adding yet another hat” by taking on the Interim Executive Director role at the Information Card Foundation, he said I had so many hats it reminded him of this children’s book. I … Continue reading →

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Paul Trevithick on Password Cards

Posted on 3/4/2009 by Drummond Reed

Paul’s done a post about his writeup of password cards on the Higgins wiki. IMHO this is  a long overdue idea for how an identity client (“selector” in information card terms) can overcome the chicken-and-egg adoption problem. Selectors are like … Continue reading →

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Eve Finds Another Intersection

Posted on 9/4/2008 by Drummond Reed

I’m going to start referring to her as the Venn Queen. Eve Maler has done another Venn diagram, this time to show the relationship of whole areas of the “user-centric” sphere of activities. Going into Digital ID World next week, … Continue reading →

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Relationship Cards (R-Cards)

Posted on 7/1/2008 by Drummond Reed

So much for the naive thought that I’ have time at the Burton Catalyst conference last week to finally blog about two subjects near and dear to my heart that I knew would be covered at the conference. It backfired … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Portability, General, Higgins, I-Cards, Identity Rights Agreements, Information cards, R-Cards, Relationship cards, Social Web, VRM, XDI, XRDS | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Pamela Dingle: My Favorite Bio

Posted on 6/25/2008 by Drummond Reed

The new announced Information Card Foundation has nine community board members, and I’m pleased to report they all have a keen sense of humor. Case in point: Pam Dingle’s bio on the Board of Directors page: Pamela Dingle Pamela Dingle … Continue reading →

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The Information Card Foundation: Helping Scale Mount Identity

Posted on 6/24/2008 by Drummond Reed

YAF? (“Yet Another Foundation?”) Some in the identity community have had that reaction to the announcement of the Information Card Foundation (ICF) today at the start of the Burton Catalyst conference in San Diego. As one of two members of … Continue reading →

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Understanding Windows CardSpace

Posted on 3/11/2008 by Drummond Reed

You know you’re seriously an identity geek when your spare-time reading is Understanding Windows Cardspace. But for this rapidly rising new branch of the digital identity space, a book with this much good information about Microsoft’s CardSpace technology is definitely … Continue reading →

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Congratulations, Stefan

Posted on 3/6/2008 by Drummond Reed

And congratulations Kim. The news just become official that Microsoft has acquired Stefan Brand’s Credentica and all its intellectual property. This pairs up Stefan with Kim Cameron and Microsoft’s Identity and Access team to bring Credentica’s groundbreaking U-Prove zero-knowledge-proof technology … Continue reading →

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Ryan Janssen Takes Me Back

Posted on 3/2/2008 by Drummond Reed

Ryan Janssen pinged me via my contact page last week to ask if I had time to share the story of how I came to be working on XRI, XDI, OpenID, i-cards, Higgins, and Identity Commons. He reached me this … 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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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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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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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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The Golden Spike Meeting of Higgins and XDI

Posted on 1/17/2007 by Drummond Reed

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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Mike Jones on Cardspace & OpenID Synergy

Posted on 12/19/2006 by Drummond Reed

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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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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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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