[Follow-on to my earlier post with notes from the YADIS meeting.] Others commenting so far include Luke Razzell, Eric Norlin on the Digital ID World blog, Drummond Reed (who is also the co-chair of the OASIS XRI committee), Josh Hoyt and David Recordon (posted to the mailing list) So far, everybody seems enthusiastic… which I [...]
Unless somebody tells me they were first and I just haven’t heard about it yet, I’d like to announce the world’s first YADIS URLs. In fact, as of today, all of the URLs hosted by mylid.net are YADIS-enabled, such as http://mylid.net/jernst (You can sign up for one here yourself if you’d like to have one, [...]
Yesterday, the following people from the YADIS.org community met for about 5 hours at Six Apart, which graciously agreed to host the meeting: Steve Churchill, Ootao Mike Mell, ID Commons Nick Ragouzis, Enosis Group Larry Drebes, JanRain Josh Hoyt, JanRain Eugene Kim, Blue Oxen Associates Michael Graves, Verisign Hans Granqvist, Verisign Drummon Reed, Cordance (phoned [...]
I’m a happy camper today, and I know, so are so many others who came to the YADIS meeting today in San Francisco. All substantial technical issues were sorted out, and there’s agreement! We might actually get interoperable URL-based digital identity for real, and real soon. Will blog about it in more detail tomorrow, stay [...]
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Scott Lemon thinks Identity is about “being the same as”
Picking up a post by Phil Windley, he says he likes dictionary.com’s definition of identity, which expresses “being the same as”. I very much agree. Accordingly, in mathematical terms, identity defined this way is a function, returning either a Yes or a No, on two arguments that are being compared. Now that’s a really simple [...]
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