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Identity Commons Charters 15 Working Groups!
Wow! By unanimous vote on its mailing list, the all-new Identity Commons has created the following 15 Working Groups: Collaborative Tools (Eugene Eric Kim) Internet Identity Workshop (Kaliya Hamlin) Identity Gang (Paul Trevithick) Standards Gang (Dick Hardt) I-Tags (Drummond Reed) Identity Schemas (Joaquin Miller) OSIS (Dale Olds) OpenID (David Recordon) SAML (Peter Davis) Identity Rights…
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On XDI
Drummond Reed was nice enough to give me a one-on-one tutorial on XDI (the XRI Data Interchange activity at OASIS) during Digital Identity World this week. If you have seen any fragments of the documents and identifiers that XDI uses, I think it’s a safe bet that you’ve probably understood nothing, and moved on. (Certainly,…
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Microsoft Open Specification Promise
After a long process, Microsoft today released the Microsoft Open Specification Promise, which essentially is a "get-out-of-jail-free" card to implement a lot of protocols that Microsoft has patents on. As many readers of this blog probably know, the OSIS project, that we co-initiated at NetMesh with Verisign and Microsoft, was one of the major drivers…
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From Digital ID World: OSIS Working Group Chartered
At today’s OSIS meeting, we did a vote and formally chartered OSIS as a working group of the new Identity Commons. The current members of the OSIS Steering Committee include: Paul Trevithick (Eclipse/Higgins Project, Social Physics) Dale Olds (Bandit Project, Novell) Michael Graves or David Recordon (Apache Heraldry Project, Verisign) Mike Jones (Microsoft) Pete Rowley…
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OpenID Bounty Program: 10 times 5000 Dollars for Open-Source Developers!
One good way of telling whether anybody means it is to see whether they are willing to spend money on it. Well, we are. A group of companies, including VeriSign, JanRain, Cordance, ooTao, Opinity (added, my apologies in missing you guys earlier), Four Kitchen Studios, Zooomr, claimID, Sxip, Six Apart, and us at NetMesh have…