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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Johannes Ernst on October 5th, 2005

He says: Even a tech-savvy person like me has a hard time envisioning, never mind comparing, the interaction scenarios proposed by various identity schemes I completely agree, and would add that nobody, not even the “insiders” really understand what consequences all the different proposed architectures have in terms of, say, who gets empowered and whose [...]

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