We went to Yosemite this past weekend. In the past, we’ve seen deers, coyotes of course, an occasional rattle snake, a bobcat once, and every few years, a bear. And this Sunday morning, in two encounters, a total of five bears, right from Tioga Road without even getting out of the car! Here are two [...]
Nico Popp, over at VeriSign, has an interesting post outlining how he thinks the US federal government will adopt OpenID: … there is a clear view that the deployment of low level assurance identities is only a critical first step, not an end in itself. With the initial OpenID pilot, the administration is seeking to [...]
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Remember high-profile Grand Central Networks, which was one of the very few high-flying tech startups after the collapse of the dot-com bubble? (Not to be confused with what became Google Voice, they only reuse the domain name.) Grand Central was founded by Halsey Minor, with the vision of electronically connecting companies and ASPs via standard [...]
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Today’s news about major identity initiatives in the US Federal Government is indeed great news. But it does make me think. Kick Willemse asked the key question on an OpenID mailing list: How about a dutch (international) OP fullfilling all criteria? What about one in Russia or China? Would the US government accept identities asserted [...]
The “Lack Of User Demand” for Internet Identity
Alexander van Elsas left a comment on my post “On Identity Business Models or Lack Thereof” that I feel I have to respond to. It is not the first time I have heard a comment along these lines, so this is more a response to “everybody”, not specifically just to him. He writes: …The underlying [...]
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