Digital Identity is maturing — into three sets of distinct standards that serve the needs of three distinct stakeholders. I’m writing this to give some context to the O’Reilly Etel conference sessions on "User-controlled Identity" (BOF Tuesday night) and "Identity Crisis: Namespaces out of control" (my talk Thursday morning). Just a few years ago, identity [...]
Blogging is a funny thing. One never knows which posts gets picked up by others and which doesn’t; and which is discussed publicly and which only one-on-one on the back channel. My recent piece The Identity Landscape of 2006 is one of those cases where there has been little public discussion and a lot of [...]
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Johannes Ernst on January 5th, 2006
He counted the number of accounts he has on-line, and came up with 380. Somehow that number does not sound like his on-line experience is very pleasurable…
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Steve Gillmor’s blog post, download MP3 from here (careful, it’s over an hour and a half! There was certainly a lot to discuss.) Doc, Steve, thanks for having me!
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Identity a consistent theme at Etel
Somewhat surprisingly, a whole series of speakers have been talking about the importance of identity today at the O’Reilly Etel conference. From the telcos (France Telecom in the morning), to several softphone providers, myself and now Microsoft. I’ve also had numerous side conversations with people who recognize the problem, don’t want to contribute to more [...]
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