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« Digital Identity in the Real and Virtual Worlds | Main | Identity Schemas »

Intro to User-Centric Identity

Kaliya leads a session at DIDW IOS
Kaliya leads a session at DIDW IOS
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Due to a mix-up with my plane reservations (completely my fault), I ended up flying into San Jose today rater than last night which meant that I ended up at the DIDW identity open space event 30 minutes late. Poor Kaliya ended up with all the set-up herself.

I arrived (sans shampoo and toothpaste) just as the session planning session ended and the real sessions began. Kaliya had volunteered to lead a session introducing user-centric identity for people new to the meetings.

Kaliya did a good job of introducing the user-centric space and elicited good questions from the audience which, in unconference fashion, helped answer the questions that came up.

There were the usual questions that com up whenever you start discussing identity with a new group: How does is this secure? How does this differ from federation? and so on. There were also some questions on identity rights, Higgins and CardSpace, i-names, and identity commons.

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3 Comments

Comment from Terence S. at September 11, 2006 12:37 PM

I just happened upon your blog by linking from Paul Allen's. the identity issues are quite a pain. I work for a school that is trying to implement Novell's Identity Management System with no success. Do you have any basic suggestions for choosing one vendor's directory over another?

Thanks
~The Scuba Skipper

Comment from Ash at September 15, 2006 5:17 AM

Scuba,
I don't think the issue is necessarily the technology, but what you are trying to accomplish. I haven't seen many truly horrible products in the identity space (at least lately). Phil quotes Jamie Lewis' keynote that might be practical advice you can use:

"Jamie’s recommendations haven’t changed much

Relate the problem to core business objectives
Begin by cleaning up your identity house. Understand identity in your organization before you start buying products.
Companies who succeed at this are the ones who don’t try to solve the problem in one fell swoop. Stay focused, pick something small, and take many small steps.
Buy Windley’s book. Ok, he didn’t really say that—he recommended a Burton Group paper. :-) "

Comment from Ash at September 15, 2006 5:20 AM

Phil,

Do you know a good User Centric Identity FAQ for newbies or "User Centric Identity For Dummies" type of page? Maybe a good topic for a post?

Ash

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