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Category Archives: XRI
He Crys Ubiquity
Craig Burton makes a highly cogent point about widespread adoption of Internet identity infrastructure. So cogent that I’m going to repeat the whole thing here: (To a Marley regaee beat) I, I ,I cry ubiquity… Ubiquity rules. Identity 2.0 is … Continue reading
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XRI, XDI, and Web Services
I just returned from an inspiring meeting with a number of Identity Gang folks about the legal, social, and policy foundations of an identity metasystem. One of the most eye-catching presentations was Dick Hardt’s video of his OSCON talk on … Continue reading
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Clay Shirky & Open Tagging
A conversation with Stowe Boyd reminded my of Clay Shirky’s recent piece called “Ontology is Overrated — Categories, Links, and Tags“. I can’t recommend this highly enough to anyone interested in open tagging. Clay makes a great case why the … Continue reading
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Adoption Hurdle for Open Tagging
Stowe Boyd makes a good point about the key adoption hurdle for open tagging: However, the assertion that we can start merrily open tagging (tra la) with XRIs fails one critical test: I would like to have taggregators like Technorati … Continue reading
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GoingOn Network
Whew! You go away for a few weeks and its amazing how much happens. I just got caught up with Marc Canter’s GoingOn Network announcement and the fact that he’ll be using XRI/XDI (along with SXIP, OpenID, and Microsoft’s proposed … Continue reading
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URNs, XRIs, and Open Tagging
In response to my post yesterday on using XRIs for “open tagging”, Darren Chamberlain had this comment: I wonder why simply using urn: URIs is not sufficient to identify a tag. From your example, the Thai tag could be: <a … Continue reading
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Mea culpa – Gabe was there first!
In my previous post I summarized a way to use XRIs for “open tagging” of blog entries and other content due to numerous pings from other bloggers about this subject — only to find out that my XRI TC co-chair … Continue reading
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Open Tagging
I just added a new category called “Open Tagging” because I’ve been having so many discussions with XRI-savvy bloggers (starting with Kaliya Hamlin and Mary Hodder) about how XRIs might be a solution for an open, distributed way of tagging … Continue reading
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Internet Identity Workshop
Just back from the longest vacation of my modern working life, and just in time for good news: Phil Windley has announced an Internet Identity Workshop organized by himself, Doc Searls, Kaliya Hamlin, and myself. It grew out of the … Continue reading
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The Sixth Corollary of Identifiers
[This is the sixth of seven proposed “Corollaries of Identifiers” to Kim Cameron’s Laws of Identity.] Kim’s Sixth Law is one of the most interesting, particularly from an HMI (human-machine interaction) standpoint: 6. The Law of Human Integration A unifying … Continue reading
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Doc frames the key questions
Doc Searls has nicely framed the key questions involved with Microsoft’s proposed identity metasystem architecture. He closes with: So, here’s the first big question: Does the metasystem require adoption of SOAP and the whole WS-* suite of protocols (or whatever … Continue reading
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I-Name/LID Interop Demo
Another Digital ID World news item from Owen Davis, Identity Commons president: The folks at ooTao have built a demo version of i-names interoperating with the LID protocol. Ff you go to the ooTao demo page you can: 1) create … Continue reading
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The Laws "Live"
I intended to make this my first live blogging entry from Digital Identity World this week, starting with Kim Cameron’s talk on the Laws of Identity. As expected, it was packed (in fact it needed a larger room — at … Continue reading
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The Fifth Corollary of Identifiers
[This is the fifth of seven proposed “Corollaries of Identifiers” to Kim Cameron’s Laws of Identity.] Kim’s Fifth Law is the one that most directly explains his use of the term “metasystemâ€Â: 5. The Law of Pluralism A universal identity … Continue reading
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The Fourth Corollary of Identifiers
[This is the fourth of seven proposed “Corollaries of Identifiers” to Kim Cameron’s Laws of Identity.] Kim’s Fourth Law is the only one that deals directly with digital identifiers: 4. The Law of Directed Identity A universal identity system MUST … Continue reading
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The Third Corollary of Identifiers
[This is the third of seven proposed “Corollaries of Identifiers” to Kim Cameron’s Laws of Identity.] Kim’s Third Law is the one he used to explain the failure of MS Passport: 3. The Law of Fewest Parties Technical identity systems … Continue reading
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Mike Phillips on Digital Citizenship
Mike Phillips, Chairman of Frank Russell Company and one of the most progressive thinkers I know about the convergence of digital identity and the real world of commerce and government, had this to say about the Laws and the Corollaries: … Continue reading
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Andy Dale on the Second Corollary
Andy Dale sent me this comment about the Second Corollary: Drummond, you say: “[Concrete identifiers such as an email address] reveal a direct method of interacting with me (as would a phone number, fax number, IM address, postal address, etc.)” … Continue reading
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The Second Corollary of Identifiers
[Note: This is the second of seven proposed “Corollaries of Identifiers” for Kim Cameron’s Laws of Identity. See the First Corollary for more background info.] Kim’s Second Law follows closely from his First Law: 2. The Law of Minimal Disclosure … Continue reading
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Mark Baker on the First Corollary
Mark Baker, one of the “gods of REST” whose work I have referenced many times in my work on the XDI protocol at OASIS, makes some excellent points in his commentary on the First Corollary. To my contention that many … Continue reading
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