[Substantially revised from the rush job yesterday, and continually updated as people comment.] [See also There are lots of things right about InfoCard] In months of discussion on public and private mailing lists, and in many meetings — most recently in a workshop hosted by Harvard’s Berkman Center — many in this community have brought [...]
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I suspect I might have created the term "light-weight digital identity" (as in LID), or I was at least one of the first to widely talk about it. So given the intense discussion on what the pros and cons of "light" vs. "heavy" might be on various mailing lists these days, I thought I throw [...]
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This Gandhi quote was made about weightier topics than technology, but it came to my mind when following some of the recent, more heated, discussion on the promise (or dangerous perils!) of using URLs to point to people on the net, using light-weight digital identity technologies like LID. It certainly keeps rattling some nerves among [...]
The YADIS specification (download PDF) has made great progress and is now in a quite stable state, thanks to our relentless editor, Joaquin Miller. Thanks also to David Recordon and Josh Hoyt, who helped drive the effort, and the many people who commented either on the YADIS mailing list or one-on-one. With this release of [...]
Rebecca MacKinnon blogged the Hervard Identity Workshop
I recall her reporting from China for CNN. She’s now a fellow at Harvard, and she participated in the same workshop I went to last week with some very tough (but very important) questions. Rebecaa blogged the event in quite some detail from her unique background. The most important parts of her comments are her [...]
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