{"id":39,"date":"2006-01-26T15:24:51","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T23:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/identity-a-consistent-theme-at-etel"},"modified":"2006-01-26T15:24:51","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T23:24:51","slug":"identity-a-consistent-theme-at-etel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/identity-a-consistent-theme-at-etel\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity a consistent theme at Etel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat surprisingly, a whole series of speakers have been talking about the importance of identity today at the O&#8217;Reilly Etel conference. From the telcos (France Telecom in the morning), to several softphone providers, myself and now Microsoft. I&#8217;ve also had numerous side conversations with people who recognize the problem, don&#8217;t want to contribute to more identity stovepipes and are a very receptive audience for URL-based identity. URLs, and the open, multi-party YADIS effort just make a lot of intuitive sense &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I didn&#8217;t get the name of the speaker from Microsoft because he was a last-minute replacement and seems to have disappeared. Although he didn&#8217;t title the talk that way, it was really identity that he was talking about, almost exclusively.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, he didn&#8217;t mention InfoCard a single time. But then, he was talking about presence and e-mail and real-time communications, and things like that, which I don&#8217;t think InfoCard attempts to address. (Does it, can somebody correct me if I&#8217;m wrong?) URLs would make a lot of sense for the use cases he was talking about &#8230; I wonder how Microsoft is going to integrate those approaches &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat surprisingly, a whole series of speakers have been talking about the importance of identity today at the O&#8217;Reilly Etel conference. From the telcos (France Telecom in the morning), to several softphone providers, myself and now Microsoft. I&#8217;ve also had numerous side conversations with people who recognize the problem, don&#8217;t want to contribute to more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}