One of the better pieces on identity and privacy that I’ve read recently, and well worth everyone reading, whether you do anything much with identity management or not, is from David Weinberger. Identity management in an unequal world discusses how when signing up for things is easier, people can take advantage of that to ask [...]
Phil Karlton said (at least once in my hearing anyway) that naming things was one of the two hard tasks in computer science (reading X Toolkit Intrinsics — C Language Interface, to which he contributed, will give you some idea why he said it); I discovered the truth of this yet again when writing the [...]
I’ve been heads-down on a project which was just announced (though not yet up and running, so I’m still working hard with the rest of the team on final details) about Sun putting up an OpenID IdP (identity provider). The idea is that this IdP will verify that the person using an OpenID of the [...]
Tagged sunopenidDarren Barefoot has some interesting thoughts about privacy in the internet age and the way in which today’s north american teenagers are growing up posting everything about their lives on the internet. Up till now, most of the discussion I’ve read on the subject has revolved around the effects on future careers of posting potentially [...]
I have the good fortune to work with Pat Patterson at Sun and one of the things we discussed quite a lot shortly before I went on maternity leave was how to make it easier for people to use Liberty protocols for their identity needs. One of the complaints I’ve heard is that there isn’t [...]
It’s good to see analysts writing sentences like “the Liberty specifications are resonating with major IT user organizations” (quoted in an InfoWorld article entitled E-government Group forms within Liberty Alliance). It shows that the Liberty specifications (and not just federation) are being implemented and deployed.
Which brings me to the main point of this posting — [...]
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