More on the relationship between InfoCard and the Identity Metasystem

Many people (e.g. Doc Searls, Julian Bond, Dave Kearns) have pointed out to me that InfoCard isn’t the Identity Metasystem and won’t become it in the future either, since my post on Monday, and they are of course right. InfoCard, at the most, will be a component of such an Identity Metasystem, and there will [...]

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Microsoft InfoCard is frequently described as an "Identity Meta-System" (as opposed to, say, Microsoft Passport, which is/was a plain identity system and not a meta-system). This term seems to have beek picked up widely, but like some others (e.g. Doc Searls), the longer I think about it, the more I realize that I have a [...]

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[Previous installment here.] Timothy Grayson hits the nail on (my?) head when he says: Your appropriately more earnest question is, I think, “Why are we splashing around in the shallows of an institutionally-framed, banal discussion about security, costs, and efficiency rather than rising to a visionary one focused on the power for d-ID to have [...]

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Recently I wrote about the difficulties of using e-mail/SMTP as a transport for Digital Identity interactions. However, these difficulties are not quite the same for instant messaging protocols such as XMPP (nee Jabber), and there are some interesting possibilities that so far haven’t been taken up by that community. In fact, I continue to be [...]

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This is one of the most common questions I’m getting about LID. The argument goes like this: people are used to addresses that look like xxx@yyy (e-mail: for people) and those that look like http://yyy/xxx (for sites). If LID uses http URLs to identify people, won’t that confuse everybody? Well, yes, it does, but that [...]

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