Upon2020 (archive)

  • Dave Winer proposes to use URLs for digital identity

    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…

  • Talk at O’Reilly’s ETel conference in January

    I will give a talk at the new O’Reilly “Emerging Telephony Conference” on January 26, 2006, at the San Francisco Airport Marriot. Here is the summary: Indentity Crisis: Namespaces Out of Control – Johannes Ernst, Netmesh/Yadis.org Date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006 Time: 11:30am – 11:45am Location: Grand Ballroom A-F In the old days, all we…

  • Bombings in Amman Today

    Leaving aside technology for a moment, today’s news about hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan, remind me of my stay there a couple of years ago to attend a World Economic Forum meeting. I blogged about it. I’ll always remember the very tight security they had in place with humvees all around the hotels, and the…

  • How does one control access to information in LID?

    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…

  • Lots of discussion on YADIS..

    … is happening on the YADIS mailing list. In case you missed it, YADIS is a bottom-up project to make user-controlled digital identities (like LID and OpenID, and likely i-names, maybe more) interoperable.