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Something must have happened to cause James McGovern to write this; an over-zealous vendor perhaps … Listen to this: …the grand exalted CIO Guru stands on his/her pedestal and pontificates to the masses that identity management is the greatest thing since sliced bread, will ease the burden of compliance and that all applications will expose…

Maybe "points out" isn’t the right word, but James is challenging Pat Patterson, Kim Cameron, Dick Hardt and myself to provide feedback on Oracle’s CARML (links to PDF) specification. Can’t not take this bait, can I? My first impression is that the goals behind it are very laudable: as the Oracle web page on the…

Pat has a description, and Hubert outlines the server architecture. The site itself is at OpenID.sun.com.

I’m sitting in a talk by John Panzer and Praveen Alavilli of AOL at the Web 2.0 Expo. The talk is about "Mashing up with User-centric Identity". They just coined a new term for something important: "Deputization". They describe it as the ability of the user to deputize a piece of software to act on…

Government Health IT quotes me in an article on "Health care 2.0", on the shift of power from the vendor to the user, or in the healthcare environment to the patient and their families. This is of course an example of a broader trend from the Henry Ford mass-production model "You can have any color…