Upon2020 (archive)
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First They Ignore You, Then They Ridicule You, Then They Fight You (I guess that’s where we are now)
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…
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YADIS 0.9 is Here
The YADIS specification (download PDF) has made great progress and is now in a quite stable state, thanks to our relentless editor, Joaquin Miller. Thanks also to David Recordon and Josh Hoyt, who helped drive the effort, and the many people who commented either on the YADIS mailing list or one-on-one. With this release of…
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Identity a consistent theme at Etel
Somewhat surprisingly, a whole series of speakers have been talking about the importance of identity today at the O’Reilly Etel conference. From the telcos (France Telecom in the morning), to several softphone providers, myself and now Microsoft. I’ve also had numerous side conversations with people who recognize the problem, don’t want to contribute to more…
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The Identity Landscape of 2006
Digital Identity is maturing — into three sets of distinct standards that serve the needs of three distinct stakeholders. I’m writing this to give some context to the O’Reilly Etel conference sessions on "User-controlled Identity" (BOF Tuesday night) and "Identity Crisis: Namespaces out of control" (my talk Thursday morning). Just a few years ago, identity…
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Feedback on “The Identity Landscape of 2006”
Blogging is a funny thing. One never knows which posts gets picked up by others and which doesn’t; and which is discussed publicly and which only one-on-one on the back channel. My recent piece The Identity Landscape of 2006 is one of those cases where there has been little public discussion and a lot of…