Category Archives: Identity Rights Agreements

T.Rob Wyatt Explains the Respect Trust Framework (and May Not Even Know It)

Posted on 3/27/2013 by Drummond Reed

How to explain how we got here? I wrote a blog post called Please Send Wicked Simple Email inspired by the jaw-dropping great messages T.Rob Wyatt was sending to the VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) and personal cloud mailing lists. I lobbied for T.Rob’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Digital rights, Events, Identity Rights Agreements, Respect Network, Respect Trust Framework, VRM | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

It’s This Simple: Vote for Kaliya on August 15

Posted on 8/7/2012 by Drummond Reed

You may never have heard of NSTIC (the U.S. National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace) or the personal data ecosystem (but then, you probably wouldn’t be reading this blog). But it matters not — if you care at all about the … Continue reading →

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Support Standard Information Sharing Labels

Posted on 5/15/2012 by Drummond Reed

One more a tip o’ the hat to Phil Windley for saving me a thousand words. He’s wonderfully articulated the reasons you should support Joe Andrieu’s Kickstarter project for the Standard Information Sharing Label. Phil sums it up perfectly: Just like we have … Continue reading →

Posted in Digital rights, Identity Rights Agreements, Personal Data Ecosystem, Privacy, Respect Trust Framework | 2 Comments

Connect.Me

Posted on 3/9/2011 by Drummond Reed

The Incredible Internet Irony Machine strikes again. The stealth startup that’s been my singular focus since stepping down as Executive Director of Open Identity Exchange and the Information Card Foundation last fall, called Respect Network, took one tiny peek above … Continue reading →

Posted in Connect.Me, Data Portability, Dataweb, Identity Rights Agreements, Open Identity Exchange, Personal Cloud, Personal Data Ecosystem, Personal Data Server, Personal Data Service, Personal Data Store, Privacy, Reputation, Social CRM, Social Web, VRM | 16 Comments

Joe Andrieu Cuts the Gordian Data Ownership Knot

Posted on 1/21/2010 by Drummond Reed

Joe Andrieu has a wonderful way of cutting the Gordian knot on complex socio-technical topics, with clear prose, compelling arguments, and clever illustrations that explain why you should look at something decidedly differently. Now he wields that knife on the … Continue reading →

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Principles of VRM

Posted on 7/9/2008 by Drummond Reed

Doc Searls has done a very succinct post on the Principles of VRM in preparation for the VRM Workshop next week in Boston. You can’t read it and not see how closely VRM is related to r-cards (relationship cards) and … Continue reading →

Posted in Higgins, Identity Rights Agreements, R-Cards, Relationship cards, VRM, XDI | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

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

Securing Very Important Data: Your Own

Posted on 10/8/2007 by Drummond Reed

Denise Caruso published a wonderful article in Sunday’s New York Times on a subject very close to my heart: how to best go about protecting personal identity, profile, and preference data as new technologies like OpenID, Higgins, and XDI make … Continue reading →

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Social Web User's Bill of Rights

Posted on 9/12/2007 by Drummond Reed

Last week I mentioned the Social Web User’s Bill of Rights that was drafted for the Data Sharing Summit last Friday and Saturday. When it was first posted, it included the phrase, “ownership”, as in “user’s should own their personal … Continue reading →

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The Data Sharing Summit: Problems and Solutions

Posted on 9/7/2007 by Drummond Reed

Certain events scream out for live blogging. The Data Sharing Summit is one of them. So these are my notes from first half of Day 1. (Then why are they being posted at midnight, you ask? Because there was too … Continue reading →

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VRM: VROOOM!

Posted on 1/2/2007 by Drummond Reed

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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The Limited Liability Persona (LLP)

Posted on 9/13/2006 by Drummond Reed

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 →

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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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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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