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 [...]

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, [...]

Information Cards take a familiar off-line consumer behavior – using a card to prove identity and provide information – and bring it to the online world

And if previously separate contexts are merged, how do you achieve Data Minimization?

An amazing array of vendors and organizations

Francis has captured something essential about the yin and yang of identity

Again we see that the identity metasystem spans a whole series of requirements, use cases and behaviors

Wired calls it "a PGP key signing party, but with cupcakes."