Health Camp was interesting today. Thanks for organizing it. I’m looking forward to the next one! I’m not entirely clear who it was who put this information on the white board, but I thought it was interesting. On the question "how much information related to healthcare is available in electronic form": Consumer Data ? Physician…

This week, I attended a very interesting presentation by Dan Pritchett and Randy Shoup, both senior technologists at eBay, on eBay’s architecture. Some of it was as I would have expected, other things were, shall we say, counter-intuitive. Here is a random collection of notes, with some special exclamation marks: 212 million registered users, 1…

Stefan Brands, eminent privacy and security researcher, asks good questions about user-centric identity. (I think they apply regardless of protocol. I have taken the liberty to replace some geeky terms with more plain ones, because I think it’s important that as many people as possible understand these questions) Can the individual consent to or withhold…

The Ping blog quotes Mike Neuenschwander of the Burton Group on whether there’s a winner-takes-all opportunity in identity management: “Although vendors continue to approach the IdM market as a winner-take-all proposition, features of IdM make the market extremely difficult to dominate. For one thing, the resources that identity vendors aspire to control are politically fragmented,…

Jeff Jonas wrote a good piece that makes the both profound and obvious point that: … information must be registered … or it cannot be located in any efficient manner. He writes from the perspective of within the enterprise, and from the perspective of setting up a separate "catalog" of information. But this very idea…