Category: Digital Identity

Some of the talk to build and open-source version of InfoCard has come in the open today with IBM and Novell’s announcement to support project Higgins, a brainchild of Paul Trivithick, John Clippinger and Mary Ruddy. Congratulations, guys!

I realized that some people might interpret (construe?) yesterday’s post about InfoCard Issues as some kind of attack. This is not my intention. There are many things that are right about InfoCard, and I definitely want to acknowledge that, and publicize that. So here is my current list. If you have comments or things to…

[Substantially revised from the rush job yesterday, and continually updated as people comment.] [See also There are lots of things right about InfoCard] In months of discussion on public and private mailing lists, and in many meetings — most recently in a workshop hosted by Harvard’s Berkman Center — many in this community have brought…

I suspect I might have created the term "light-weight digital identity" (as in LID), or I was at least one of the first to widely talk about it. So given the intense discussion on what the pros and cons of "light" vs. "heavy" might be on various mailing lists these days, I thought I throw…

This Gandhi quote was made about weightier topics than technology, but it came to my mind when following some of the recent, more heated, discussion on the promise (or dangerous perils!) of using URLs to point to people on the net, using light-weight digital identity technologies like LID. It certainly keeps rattling some nerves among…