Category: Digital Identity

Unless somebody tells me they were first and I just haven’t heard about it yet, I’d like to announce the world’s first YADIS URLs. In fact, as of today, all of the URLs hosted by mylid.net are YADIS-enabled, such as http://mylid.net/jernst (You can sign up for one here yourself if you’d like to have one,…

Yesterday, the following people from the YADIS.org community met for about 5 hours at Six Apart, which graciously agreed to host the meeting: Steve Churchill, Ootao Mike Mell, ID Commons Nick Ragouzis, Enosis Group Larry Drebes, JanRain Josh Hoyt, JanRain Eugene Kim, Blue Oxen Associates Michael Graves, Verisign Hans Granqvist, Verisign Drummon Reed, Cordance (phoned…

I’m a happy camper today, and I know, so are so many others who came to the YADIS meeting today in San Francisco. All substantial technical issues were sorted out, and there’s agreement! We might actually get interoperable URL-based digital identity for real, and real soon. Will blog about it in more detail tomorrow, stay…

Dave Winer proposes to use URLs instead of e-mail addresses to identify the document creator in OPML feeds. His proposal is another sign in the rapidly growing consensus to use URLs for digital identity: from LID, OpenID to YADIS and now OPML. He says: When OPML was designed, over five years ago, spam wasn’t the…

Dan Libby asks about this in private e-mail. I got his permission to post some of the exchange because I’m sure others are pondering the same questions. I edited it a little bit. Dan writes: In reference to: http://lid.netmesh.org/wiki/LID_2.0_VCard_Profile: 1) Am I missing something? It seems to me that any profile exchange mechanism that people…