Upon2020 (archive)
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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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I Can’t Believe “Metcalfe’s Law is Wrong” is Still News
IEEE Spectrum has an article titled "Metcalfe’s Law is Wrong" that was published in the July 2006 issue arguing that the basic math behind "Metcalfe’s law" is wrong. Of course it is, how could it not if you think about it? The infuriating thing is that this still seems to be news! I blogged about…
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The First Real OpenID Security Vulnerability
Under the headline, "Shocking headline about OpenID security issue here", Benjamin Nowack describes what I think is the first major security vulnerability discovered for OpenID, and probably for a whole range of other technologies. In fact, it appears that many websites are vulnerable to the same kind of attack, whether they have implemented digital identity…
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OpenID Bounty Poster
Kaliya took a picture of the OpenID bounty poster: