Upon2020 (archive)
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Why We Really Don’t Need an “Identity Selector”
As of this week’s Internet Identity Workshop, I’m now rather convinced that an “identity selector” is the wrong product and the wrong feature set, regardless of the exact details of a particular vendor’s implementation. Several discussions in several contexts, including how to best make a browser identity-aware, all point to the same conclusion, regardless if…
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Kim Cameron: OpenID is the Most Widely Adopted System for Reusable Internet Identity
The list of brand-name OpenID adopters speaks for itself, with — by some counts — now more than 1 billion functional OpenIDs on the open internet, but for the internet identity movement this quote from Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s Chief Identity Architect, is rather significant: In the last year, OpenID has without doubt become the most…
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Too many messaging clients on my desktop
There is: e-mail (Mail.app) VoIP (Skype) RSS (NetNewsWire, and Mail.app) Twitter (Tweetie) sometimes IM (iChat, others) sometimes IRC (Colloquy) That’s in addition to websites that also act as messaging clients, like Facebook, I’m sorry, how many feeds am I supposed to monitor in how many pieces of software? What about somebody develop a real nice…
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Is OpenID Still User-Centric?
I’m beginning to have second thoughts. Plenty of people (myself included) got involved in internet identity because of its promise to put all of us as individuals at the center of our interactions on-line. To empower individuals to define and offer and enforce their own terms in their interactions with others. To not merely be…
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We’re Saved Thanks to the ITU … Not!
ComputerWeekly reports somewhat breathlessly: Multiple passwords to access computer networks and services may soon be a thing of the past. ITU-T X.1250 provides the ability to enhance data exchange and trust in the identities used worldwide by users, network access devices and service providers using a certificate-based public key infrastructure (PKI) system. This is similar…