Movement in the Personal Digital Identity Market: Announcing YADIS

Wouldn’t it be nice if Personal Digital Identity technologies like LID and OpenID were interoperable? This morning, the nice folks at Six Apart and we at NetMesh announced YADIS.org, a new project to make Personal Digital Identity technologies interoperable. It all started when Brad Fitzpatrick (the founder of LiveJournal and inventor of OpenID), David Recordon [...]

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Turns out Kim was busy getting himself to safety from hurricane Wilma, which most certainly is a much more important activity than responding to mailing list or blog comments. Now that he is back, he’s very clear on his views about “Who owns the [identity] metasystem”: So let me provide some definitive and public answers [...]

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Update Oct 22: Kim responds: "We do our part to build the metasystem – others do theirs. The metasystem belongs to no one – and to everyone… As for the quote below, I have no idea who wrote it. I really doubt it would be any sentient being from Microsoft. Certainly it’s not our intended [...]

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His post resonates very well with my thinking: an identity, even a digital one, is a lot more than "a set of claims made by one digital entity about itself or another digital identity" (from Wikipedia, which probably got it from the Identity Gang Wiki). He proposes this mental experiment: One way of sussing this [...]

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