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Dave Kearns has written a post explaining that, if solutions are architected correctly, there’s no meaningful difference between the two. He writes:
We start by defining identity as a group of “personas” (see “Defining identity, persona, role”). Any persona can be made up of a group of personas or roles. Each of those personas can be [...] Read More...
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Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense written by Randy Stross of the NY Times appeared today. The article starts off well and focuses entirely on the problem of passwords. I particularly like the line:
In short, we need a log-on system that relies on cryptography, not mnemonics.
Very nice. As for the rest of the article, [...] Read More...
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It’s a common misconception that Information Card technology is proprietary to Microsoft. In the past there there has been some truth to this, and I realize that most people think it remains true, but it isn’t. Quite the contrary.
The design work behind what is now called Information Card technology started about five years ago at [...] Read More...
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I can’t tell you excited I was a few weeks ago to get my hands on a copy of this gem. And I wasn’t disappointed. The title pretty much says how the book is positioned. Being a “working ontologist” focused on the area of identity, this was just the book I needed. I wish I [...] Read More...
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I’m very glad I’ve come to Doc’s VRM workshop at the Berkman center this week Among other things, I’ve met some wonderful new fellow travelers in this promising new space. I was particularly interested in the discussions centered on defining the value proposition for the “v” in VRM–the merchants, manufacturers, and so on that [...] Read More...
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After a discussion this afternoon in Second Life and Skype with the dataportability folks, I decided to register a domain name called xrds.net The idea was to create a community-neutral URIspace (registry) for URIs used as XRDS Service Type values.... Read More...
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Two can't-miss events are coming up May 12-15 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California: The Internet Identity Workshop 2008a (http://www.windley.com/events/iiw2008a/) The DataSharingSummit (http://datasharingsummit.com) This is where things happen, so you don't want to miss it. Both events... Read More...
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They said:
The second special prize goes to open source projects Higgins and Bandit, which we consider the most important open source initiatives in the field of Identity Management. Read More...
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I’ll be demonstrating: Higgins Firefox-embedded Selector (with hosted i-card service)
An experimental Higgins Adobe AIR selector (with hosted i-card service)
An experimental Higgins Selector Selector (IE or Firefox or a local mapping demo app can all call the HSS which in turn can launch either Microsoft CardSpace or the Higgins AIR selector) …along with 33 companies and 23 other [...] Read More...
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This is a followup and expansion to a blog entry I wrote in October 2007, titled "Memo to OAuth Service Providers". Recently, I've been working with a host of companies with open APIs built specifically for 3rd parties to build... Read More...
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Eran Hammer-Lahav announces the first draft of XRDS-Simple 1.0, which is the attempt to make a simplified profile of the XRDS/XRD XML document that is the core of XRI Resolution. Drummond Reed and I, along with other members of the... Read More...
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The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) this week released At a Crossroads: Personhood and Digital Identity in the Information Society, by Berkman Fellow Mary Rundle and co-authors Bob Blakley, Jeff Broberg, Anthony Nadalin, Dale Olds, Mary Ruddy, Marcelo Thompson Mello Guimarães, and me.
The paper describes user-centric “properties of identity” that can guide [...] Read More...
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Stefan and his team are rock stars in privacy-enhancing crypto. Today their technology and patents were acquired by Microsoft as you can read here, here and here. I want to congratulate Stefan personally. Here’s a fellow entrepreneur, and someone I’m honored to call a friend who’s done it all. Developed a deep technology, created a [...] Read More...
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Here’s the press release from Eclipse. We’ve been getting lots of congratulations from friends. Which feels great. Thanks to all of you.
The next trick will be building awareness and adoption. When you consider that 0% of all websites (or enterprise apps) accept i-cards or OpenID, and 0% of sites issue cards, it’s small wonder [...] Read More...
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Congratulations to my friends at the OpenID Foundation on the news that Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board. I’ve been in lots of meetings in the past week and the buzz is everywhere.
This happy event has jogged me into writing a few thoughts about OpenID technology and how it fits nicely [...] Read More...
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