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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 XDI. I’m so excited to actually start bringing this to market this year that sometimes [...]

So much for the naïve thought that I’d 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 because they were too topical—all available time was consumed by related conversations. I did manage two [...]

Brett McDowell, executive director of Liberty Alliance, is one of the founding members.

Mike (one of those who need no sleep) blogged about Fun Communication's openid idtheft site and I encourage you to read Mike's post and try your personal idtheft immediately. Back here?! Well, you knew all this already, didn't you? But seeing it in action is another thing, I guess. So where does this lead us? Remember the " openid dogfight " from September 2007? I too think that we need a spectrum of solutions. I agree that openid is for when an RP has "trivial" security requirements, but I think

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.

The Pamela Project: a grassroots organization providing community support for web users and administrators who wish to use or deploy information card technologies