May
25

How does identity data relate to transactional and other kinds of data?

Johannes Ernst on May 25th, 2006

Is it non-overlapping? The same, or a subset? Is there overlap; if so, where, and under which circumstances? These questions are at the heart of the thought process that needs to get into designing identity technologies for the era of pervasive identity. For example, if the answer was "non-overlapping", then we could merrily go ahead [...]

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May
25

How will cyber criminals make a buck once we have pervasive digital identity on the internet?

Johannes Ernst on May 25th, 2006

I proposed the following topic: Let’s role play as aspiring cyber criminals, 10 years from now, when there’s a ubiquitous digital identity layer that is part of all digital interactions over the internet. How do we make a buck or a billion? for dinner conversation at the upcoming Harvard/Berkman conference on digital identity. Apparently they [...]

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May
25

The Challenges of Open Data — example: Digital Identity

Johannes Ernst on May 25th, 2006

Last week, I posted about why forcing identity data into name-value pairs is an architectural dead end. Of the many comments that I received, those from Phil Hunt and Mark Wilcox, in particular, turned out to warrant a much more detailed response than I initially thought. I realized that they are raising a much broader [...]

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