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Hans Gerwitz writes to tell me about a proposal he calls PersonCode. If I understand this correctly, the idea is to run a person’s e-mail address through a secure hash function, and use the result to correlate the same user’s accounts on different services. He writes: What I want can be described by a simple…

According to Wendy Hall, a longstanding colleague of Berners-Lee.., the babies of the future, for example, will have a web address instead of a National Insurance Number. Hall said: ‘I have a vision that in the future when a baby is born you’ll get some sort of internet ID that is effectively your digital persona,…

Phil Windley has a very succinct definition for these two related terms: Identity is my story about me. Reputation is your story about me. I hope I’m quoting this right (from memory of a slide that he showed at IIW yesterday.) I really like this definition.

In an analogy to Pingbacks, Mike Bijon (aka Moogle1) proposes to create a higher-level specification by which bloggers can express trust in other bloggers. Actually, I think it is about people with a URL expressing trust in each other, closely related to URL-based identity. Certainly he says that it would require an identity system and…

He writes: Why can’t sign-on work like this? The user goes to the site’s URL (www.buycrap.com) Before they can buy something, the user has to enter their email username and password (Jason@jasonkolb.com and test123) www.buystuff.com looks up the email server for jasonkolb.com from the domain registrar (using the domain’s MX record). We now have a…