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Relationship Providers

Businesses spend a great deal of time and money trying to identify their customers. By "identify" I mean not just get a name and credit card number, but find, learn about, and discover the attributes, preferences, and even desires... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 23, 2008 3:38 PM

One Is the Loneliest Number: Relationships on the Internet

Bob Blakely is speaking about building a relationship layer for the Internet. A relationship is the context within which we observe one another. Past history and even attitudes are not directly observable. This is imperfect--distant relationships are the basis... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 14, 2008 1:45 PM

What's Your Architecture's Agenda?

One of the topics that came up in today's free range small groups discussions are IIW2008A was the idea that architectures have agendas. Brad Templeton voiced the idea that all designs have defaults and those defaults represent an encoding... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 12, 2008 6:19 PM

IIW Is Just Around the Corner

If you are wondering what the Internet Identity Workshop is all about we have a new articulation posted on the main wiki page for our upcoming conference. It goes into the range of topics covered along with the technology... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 30, 2008 4:25 PM

IIW 2008 Happening May 12-14

The announcement and registration pages for IIW 2008 are now live. Please take minute and do three things: Register so we know you're coming. Having a good count early makes the whole thing go smoother. Help us spread the... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 20, 2008 12:01 PM

What's New in OpenID 2.0?

OpenID 2.0 was finally release yesterday. I've put a piece up at Between the Lines on what's new in OpenID 2.0. There's some important capabilities that will move this forward in a big way.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 6, 2007 3:38 PM

Understanding OpenID

Here's a screencast that Dan Lullich sent me showing how OpenID works using a whiteboard cartoon. Very clever! Dan was also my guest on the Technometria podcast this week. We talked about reputation--go figure.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 5, 2007 10:48 AM

Reputation at IIW2007B

Doc juggles(click to enlarge) I just posted a summary piece from Tuesday at IIW2007B at Between the Lines: Reputation taking center stage. I also have pictures. Look for more IIW coverage with the iiw2007b tag.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 4, 2007 6:47 PM

Placing the User at the Center of Identity

Coincidentally, a feature I did for InfoWorld on user-centric identity appeared today. Here's what I contributed: Federating identity for the WebUser-centric innovations CardSpace and OpenID may finally bring the promise of federation within reach Understanding OpenID and CardSpaceOpenID and... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 3, 2007 6:37 PM

IIW2007B Kicks Off

IIW2007B is underway. I flew to San Jose with two of my grad students, Bryant Cutler and Devlin Daley this morning. We went to Costco to buy food for snacks and showed up at the Computer History Museum about... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 3, 2007 4:12 PM

PayPal Really Makes Me Mad!

I got an email from PayPal today: We have reason to believe that your account was accessed by a third party. We have limited access to sensitive PayPal account features in case your account has been accessed by an... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 30, 2007 5:44 PM

The State of FOSS in Utah

Clint Savage was the speaker at tonight's PLUG meeting. Clint is the founder of the Utah Open Source Foundation. UTOSF was the power behind the recent Utah Open Source Conference. Clint ran down a long list of activities that... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 14, 2007 8:29 PM

User-Centric Identity Events at DIDW

There are several user-centric identity events happening at the upcoming Digital Identity World. Identity Open Space User-Centric Digital Identity is gaining traction. OpenID is one of first of several efforts moving out on the web. There is a cluster... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 4, 2007 8:26 PM

Milestones at IIW2007A

Dale Olds just put up some thoughts on IIW2007a and the significant events that occurred. He concentrates on the interoperability session and has some great pictures. Mike Jones gave some detailed stats from the interoperability session.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 19, 2007 9:13 PM

Phil Wolff on Technometria

I've known Phil Wolff for years. Not in any particular context, he was just a fellow blogger I'd talk to at conferences we both showed up at. I enjoyed what he wrote. Then a while back, I noticed that... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 31, 2007 3:48 PM

CTO Breakfast Reminder

Just a reminder that we'll hold the May CTO breakfast this coming Thursday at 8am. We're in the usual place--the Novell cafeteria. Some of you are still holding out because it seems so far away, but give it a... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 21, 2007 9:43 PM

LunchMeet on IIW

Kaliya and I are on LunchMeet today talking about IIW. LunchMeet host Eddie Codel visited IIW yesterday and brought his camera.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 16, 2007 1:54 PM

Internet Identity Workshop 2007: Day Three

Tuesday dinner at the Monte Carlo in Mountain View(click to enlarge) If you're interested in following blogs about IIW2007, you can look for the iiw2007 tag on Technorati. First thing this morning (after picking up bagels) I went to... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 16, 2007 1:32 PM

Internet Identity Workshop 2007: Day Two

IIW2007A Agenda Wall(click to enlarge) The second day at IIW started in the traditional way: building the agenda. I was surprised that almost half to rooms stood up to propose a session. The wall is pretty full and there... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 15, 2007 1:29 PM

IIW2007 Has Begun: Day One Activities

After months of preparation, IIW2007 has begun. Whew! I always feel a big relief when the "train leaves the station" as Mike Jones said. During the introductory presentation Eugene Kim asked how many people were here for the first... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 14, 2007 3:23 PM

WWW2007 Wrap-Up

Today I'm on my way home from Banff. The conference goes until Saturday, but with IIW starting Monday of next week and Sunday being Mother's Day, I didn't feel like I could hold out until the end. My feelings... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 11, 2007 11:33 AM

Sun Supports OpenID and Opens the Question of Reputation

Sun announced (or at least Tim did) that Sun's supporting OpenID at openid.sun.com. Sun has taken the additional step of stating that only Sun employees will have IDs there. So, if someone presents an OpenID with a base domain... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 7, 2007 3:47 PM

Identity Open Space in Europe

We're going to conduct an Identity Open Space event in Brussels in April. This will be like the one's we've done in Vancouver with Liberty and in Santa Clara with DIDW. Like the Vancouver IOS, this one will also... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 5, 2007 3:18 PM

IIW2007

This is not the Internet Identity Workshop--but going to Croatia to learn to weld might be fun. We'll be doing the first Internet Identity Workshop this year on May 14-16, 2007 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View,... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 2, 2007 5:04 PM

Exploring Interoperability Space

Paul Trevethick has put together a document identifying the dimensions along which components and data flows can be changed in user-centric identity systems. His space is a diagram that is general enough to cover most wire-level interactions of various... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 25, 2007 7:52 PM

IIW2006 Lost and Found

After IIW2006B was over last week, we found a few things. Kaliya has them, so if they're yours contact Kaliya to get them back. Here's pictures (click picture to enlarge): Phone charger Glass case IBM power adapter Macbook (65W)... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 10, 2006 5:05 PM

Bohemian Rhapsody in the key of ID

On Tuesday evening, we were treated to the debut performance of Bohemian Rhapsody in the key of ID (lyrics by Eve Maler, Laurie Rae, Peter Tapling, Derek Fluker, Bill Johnson, and Wes Kussmaul). Conor Cahill shot a video:... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 8, 2006 1:12 PM

Computational Reputation

I did a session on online reputation (or "computational reputation" as I've taken to calling it to distinguish it from reputation work in other fields). I didn't have time to take notes, but if I find others who have,... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 6, 2006 2:23 PM

i-names...Again

Salim Ismail(click to enlarge) I went to a session on the future of i-names this morning. Drummond Reed started off talking about what they are now. DNS names abstract IP numbers. URLs, based on DNS, typically point to specific locations.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 6, 2006 11:59 AM

The State of User Centric Identity

Johannes Ernst has a good summary of the current user-centric identity landscape in his updated triangle diagram.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 6, 2006 12:32 AM

Beyond Passwords

Hacking CardSpace in the Hi-Fi Lounge (click to enlarge) In the session on authentication without passwords (beyond passwords) put, Lisa Dusseault made the assertions (with some help from the room): Existing browsers do not succeed in verifying site identity to... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 5, 2006 5:10 PM

Speed Geeking

Chuck Mortimore demos XMLDAP(click to enlarge) Speed geeking turned out great. I saw some things that really interested me and I got it in a quick hit. The following projects or demos were done: Earthgrid.org - Video worth paying for... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 5, 2006 5:07 PM

Vendor Relationship Matters

I went to Doc's discussion of VRM (vendor relationship management). We had a great discussion around a number of scenarios. There's Doc's (by now) famous rental car discussion. Dave Winer brought up Yahoo! Movies and Netflix and sharing data... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 5, 2006 2:40 PM

Lightbulb: Bringing SAML to PHP

Pat Patterson spoke on using SAML in a "Web 2.0 World." SAML provides a good mechanism for transporting identity attributes. But to use SAML on the wild Web, you've got to support dynamic languages like PHP. Pat has a... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 5, 2006 12:29 PM

Trusting OpenID

We started off the morning, as is our tradition by building the schedule for the conference. Lots of good sessions proposed and many I will have to choose between. I love seeing these things come together. I started off... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 5, 2006 11:01 AM

Introducing User-Centric Identity

Doc Searls(click to enlarge) The Internet Identity Workshop (2006B) has begun. I flew in this morning and spent the time before the conference started shopping for things we need for snacks, etc. Today is not an unconference event--that starts tomorrow.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 4, 2006 6:00 PM

IIW2006B Is Next Week

We're getting ready for another excellent IIW next week. There are good people coming and the numbers are working out just right (we've got about 100 people signed up as of today). It's still not too late to sign... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 30, 2006 3:34 PM

Computer History Museum

My post yesterday about Ralph Griswold's death sparked a comment by Chris Loosely about the Computer History Museum's founders series. David Berlind has a post, with video, from that event. Incidently, we're holding IIW2006B at the Computer History Museum... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 19, 2006 2:00 PM

Announcing IIW2006B

The announcement for IIW2006B has been up for a while, but we really haven't drawn much attention to it. Please put Dec 4-6 on your calendar if you're planning on coming. The format and organization will be about the... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 4, 2006 4:51 PM

Kaliya Wins DIDW Award

Kaliya Hamlin won a DIDW award for "behind the scenes" work on the Internet Identity Workshop and th Identity Gang. It was well deserved. Kaliya is a motive force in this area and someone who makes the community better.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 13, 2006 3:45 PM

DIDW Opener

Phil Becker and Rob Clyde(click to enlarge) Our IOS event ended at 3pm. We had 5 sessions--too short, really, to get into the spirit of the event, but there were about 80 people there and lots of good discussion. We'll... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 11, 2006 4:56 PM

Identity Schemas

Mark Wahl on identity schemas(click to enlarge) Mark Wahl of Informed Control led a session on identity schemas and how to deal with them. People reinvent schemas, they use different labels for the same data, there's problems bringing these various... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 11, 2006 12:18 PM

Intro to User-Centric Identity

Kaliya leads a session at DIDW IOS(click to enlarge) 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... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 11, 2006 11:48 AM

Digital Identity in the Real and Virtual Worlds

Last week Jon Udell and I spoke on the phone about digital identity. A serendipitous lead-up to this week's Digital ID World conference and the associated Identity Open Space event that Kaliya, Doc and I put together. Jon has... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 11, 2006 10:51 AM

Register for the DIDW IOS

If you're planning on attending the Identity Open Space on Sept 11 in Santa Clara, please take a minute and register. We need a good head count before we order lunch. We're perfectly happy to have you sign up... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 28, 2006 1:30 PM

Identity Open Space and DIDW Event: Register Now!

We're doing an identity open space on Monday Sept. 11, 2006 in Santa Clara in conjunction with Digital ID World. DIDW starts Monday afternoon and we're going to do 3/4's of a day of open space beforehand to talk... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 11, 2006 12:00 PM

Unconferencing

Kaliya got a nice mention on unconferencing in an article in the San Jose Mercury News. This is the same technique we use at the Internet Identity Workshop that's garnered considerable praise for achieving real results. Kaliya is a... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 13, 2006 9:09 PM

Identity Open Space in Vancouver

There's an Identity Open Space happening in Vancouver BC July 20-21. This is bring jointly produced by Liberty Alliance and Kaliya Hamlin, Doc Searls, and I (the IIW folks). The goal is to create another highly interactive event and... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 5, 2006 10:15 AM

DIDW and IIW: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together

The Digital ID World conference will be held September 11-13 this year in Santa Clara. We're going to have a 3/4-day IIW event on the 11th before the keynotes begin in the late afternoon. We're hoping to attract some... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 25, 2006 3:59 AM

May CTO Breakfast Report

We spent a good deal of time talking about offsite backup and things like Jungle Disk. Jungle Disk is a application for Windows, OSX, and Linux that uses Amazon's S3 as the storage substrate. Bruce brought up Verisign's PIP,... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 19, 2006 9:48 AM

Reputation Podcast

Tom Maddox had his podcasting gear at IIW2006 and was interviewing people both days. He was just sitting in the main hall, so there's quite a bit of background noise, but they material is pretty good. So far, he's... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 8, 2006 10:44 AM

IIW Identity Space Map

Kaliya created a wall hanging from butcher paper and lots of little colored construction paper icons to hang on it. This was hanging on the wall the entire workshop and people were free to add to it. The "map"... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 6, 2006 12:01 PM

IIW2006 Wrap

After a day of decompressing from Internet Identity Workshop, I've had a few random thoughts that I thought I'd record. I was very pleased with how things turned out, that participation, the venue, the food, everything. Here are some... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 5, 2006 4:42 PM

IIW2006 Kudos for Unconferences

Kim Cameron has some very nice words for IIW2006 and the unconference format on his blog: Everyone in attendance was awe-struck by the IIW 2006 that just took place in Mountainview. It was incredible. With Doc Searls and Phil... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 5, 2006 8:07 AM

Speaking at Yahoo! on Reputation

Yahoo!(click to enlarge) I gave a presentation on identity and reputation at Yahoo! today as Chad Dickerson's guest. The talk (slides) introduced user-centric identity and then introduced the reputation framework that my students built. I hope we'll have releasable code... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 4, 2006 5:31 PM

Wiki Wednesday

After the day was over at IIW, Eugene Kim was headed down to SocialText to speak at Wiki Wednesday, so some of us tagged along. The evening was nice enough that we moved it outside. A very informal and... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 3, 2006 8:19 PM

IIW2006: Wednesday Sessions

Randy Farmer leads the skeptic session(click to enlarge) Kaliya started the day with a call for anyone else who wanted to create new sessions and then did a "spectrogram." She put a long piece of tape on the floor and... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 3, 2006 12:53 PM

IIW2006: Tuesday Afternoon Sessions

Doc, Dave Winer, and Don Park(click to enlarge) The afternoon started for me with a session that Dave Winer led on identity in OPML and RSS. There's a need to identify owners and authors in OPML and RSS without creating... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 2, 2006 3:36 PM

IIW2006: Tuesday Morning Sessions

Monday Dinner(click to enlarge) Last night's conference dinner was very well attended and very good. We started the morning in true unconference fashion by putting together the agenda. This happens by having anyone who wants to lead a session write... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 2, 2006 11:31 AM

IIW2006: SXIP, InfoCard, XRI, and Doc

The new "just right" room(click to enlarge) We moved upstairs to accommodate the crowd and ended up with a lot more elbow room. Dick Hardt was the first speaker after the break. he gave a new version of his famous... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 1, 2006 5:54 PM

IIW2006: Identity, Lexicon, and URLs

The identity map(click to enlarge) One of the nice things about an informal workshop is the freedom to rearrange things as necessary. Doc, who was opening, was running a little late, so we re-did some of the schedule. Eugene Kim... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 1, 2006 3:03 PM

IIW2006: Getting Started

The Internet Identity Workshop starts today. I'm actually sitting in the Computer History Museum right now, getting things set up. It's not too late to come, if you're interested. I've added a one day option to the registration page.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 1, 2006 12:20 PM

IIW2006: Monday Activities

It would be helpful for us to get a count of people who are planning on attending Monday's afternoon session, the dinner that evening, or both. If you're planning on being at either of those activities, please visit this... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 28, 2006 12:56 AM

Story of Digital Identity

Kaliya was on Aldo Castaneda's Story of Digital Identity podcast this week talking about the Internet Identity Workshop. We're expecting a good crowd.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 28, 2006 12:37 AM

IIW Gear Available at CafePress

Shirts and other stuff with the cool Internet Identity Workshop logo are available now at CafePress. All this is at cost--there's no markup. If you're planning on coming to IIW May 1-3, I'd really appreciate you registering as soon... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 18, 2006 4:08 PM

Navigating User Centric ID Systems

If you've been following along, you'll remember that I set up a OpenID enabled MediaWiki for the Internet Identity Workshop. Yesterday, Johannes Ernst told me that you can use MyLID to sign in as well. Cool. This works because... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 14, 2006 4:43 PM

InfoCard and MediaWiki

A few days ago, I mentioned that we'd put up a version of MediaWiki that supports OpenID for the Internet Identity Workshop. I know that Johannes Ernst and others trying to get it all working with Yadis generally. A... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 12, 2006 2:59 PM

Identity Privacy Contracts

I had a nice chat with Jeremie Miller this morning and he pointed me at a post I'd missed from Peter St. Andre on what he calls Identity Privacy Contracts. This is a well though out discussion on the... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 11, 2006 9:30 AM

Separating Authentication and Authorization

Yesterday I was talking to Kelly Flanagan, BYU's CIO about the OpenID enabled wiki we have for the Internet Identity Workshop. I'd love to see BYU put an OpenID server on top of their directory. That way I could... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 7, 2006 1:44 PM

OpenID and MediaWiki

Ross Mayfield generously donated a wiki for the Internet Identity Workshop and we used it to good effect for the event last October. This time there was some interest in using OpenID (and even Yadis, if possible) to do... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 5, 2006 8:30 PM

March CTO Breakfast Report

This morning's CTO breakfast had around 30 people in attendance. As always, the conversations was geeky and varied. Here are a few things I took notes on. We had a discussion of Ruby and how it's always at the... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 30, 2006 2:42 PM

LDS Church Has RSS

The LDS Church (BYU's sponsoring organization) has added RSS feeds to their Web site.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 20, 2006 4:42 PM

IIW2006 Registration

The registration page for the Internet Identity Workshop is now live. Please register as soon as you can: we have early deposit requirements at the Computer History Museum that we're hoping registration fees will cover.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 18, 2006 11:31 AM

Internet Identity Workshop 2006

Kaliya Hamlin, Doc Searls and I will be holding another installment of the Internet Identity Workshop at the Computer History Museum in Mountainview, CA on May 2 and 3. We're also holding a half day "intro for newbies" on... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 13, 2006 6:35 PM

IIW2006A Dates

We're planning dates for the 2006 Internet Identity Workshop (part A). We're planning to hold the workshop in the Bay area, but before we can finalize the venue, we need to pick dates. We've settled on May 2-3 or... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 1, 2006 11:08 AM

IIW2006 Venue

We're looking for a venue for Internet Identity Workshop 2006. We're planning to hold it in the Bay Area in May. We need enough space for about 100 people and a way to hold 4-5 breakout sessions during part... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 28, 2006 10:00 AM

More Pictures from IIW2005

I found I hadn't uploaded the photos I took at IIW2005 on day two. I've done so now, if you're interested.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 1, 2005 9:35 PM

IIW2005 Talks

If you missed IIW2005, or were there and wanted to hear something over again, the audio from the conference is now online. A big thanks to Scott Mace for recording the workshop and post processing the audio. You can... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 14, 2005 8:32 AM

TaskTracer: Gathering Attention Data

Today's CS department colloquium featured Thomas Dietterich from Oregon State University. His research area is machine learning. On of the things he talked about is called TaskTracer. The basic idea of Task Tracer is to capturing the coherence of... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 3, 2005 2:09 PM

Achieving Ubiquity With an Identity Metasystem

Brett McDowall, who gave a presentation on Liberty at IIW2005, has started a blog. At IIW2005, he said "the world belongs to those who show up" and his blog is an effort to "show up" in the blogosphere. Brett... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 2, 2005 6:17 PM

CTO Breakfast Report

I really enjoyed this morning's CTO breakfast a lot. At the suggestion of some attendees, I tried to moderate it a little and keep it more focused on new and interesting technology. Here are some of the things we... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 28, 2005 11:39 AM

IIW2005: Day Two Wrap-Up

Today we ran the conference using something called "structured open space." Kaliya Hamlin was anxious that we use it as a way of creating discussion. I'll admit that I was somewhat skeptical, but it turned out very well. Here's... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 27, 2005 8:27 PM

IIW2005: Identity Rights Agreements

This afternoon there was a good sized group that got together to discuss Identity Rights Agreements. One big problem is the legal status of such agreements. Mary Rundle was very helpful to the discussion here. One point was that... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 27, 2005 2:42 PM

IIW2005: Attention Data as Identity

Attention data is the record of what you've read, what you're spending time on, and what you should be paying attention to. Two different groups are thinking about attention data in a general way: Attention.xml and Attention Trust. My... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 27, 2005 12:25 PM

IIW2005: Summary at Between the Lines

I posted some thoughts and a summary of Day One at Between the Lines.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 11:01 PM

IIW2005: Pictures

I've posted some pictures I took today at IIW2005 on my Gallery. There's also some at Flickr that are tagged with iiw2005. I tried to get every speaker, but missed a few--just got busy writing and forgot to take... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 10:17 PM

IIW2005: Joel Getzendanner on Identity Commons

Joel Getzendanner is introducing Identity Commons. Identity Commons (IC) is not a service provider, a technological alternative, or an umbrella organization. IC is a place for those working on identity. IC is technologically neutral. IC is intended to be... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 6:34 PM

IIW2005: Paul Trevithick on Higgins Trust Framework

Identity is a three-body problem. When you use a credit card, there's pre-existing trust between the airline and the bank (brokered by Visa). You're the third party in that equation. Lots of groups that we belong to, lots of... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 5:56 PM

IIW 2005: Brad Fitzpatrick on OpenID

OpenID is similar to LID in that URLs are used for identifiers. Identity URLs can be static web pages so there's a low barrier to entry. Also, no SSL is required, nor is a browser plugin. OpenID is simply... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 5:17 PM

IIW2005: Johannes Ernst on LID

Johannes starts off with a discussion of REST because that's critical to his design principles for LID. He describes it this way: "everything that matters on the Internet has a URL, can be bookmarked, can be found via Google,... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 4:09 PM

IIW2005: Dick Hardt on Identity 2.0

Dick starts with a discussion of the SXIP 1.0 architecture. One of the things I note as I listen to Dick is the nomenclature problem. We have some people calling users "users" and others calling them "principals", some calling... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 3:31 PM

IIW2005: Drummond Reed on XRIs

XRI is a syntax and resolution protocol for abstract identifiers---identifiers that are independent of the underlying network location, domain, application, or storage. It's an abstraction layer for identifiers of all types. You can use an XRI anyplace you can... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 1:24 PM

IIW2005: Brett McDowell on Liberty Alliance

Brett McDowall is speaking on Liberty Alliance to "engage the bottom-up community." The vision of Liberty Alliance (LA) is a networked world in which individuals and businesses can share identity information in a protected way. LA is working on... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 12:36 PM

IIW2005: Mike Jones on Identity Metasystems

We're trying to get to a world where there is a ubiquitous, user-centric identity solution for the Internet. The result should be a safer, more trustworthy Internet. Mike is showing a user experience for InfoCards, Microsoft's proposed identity solution.... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 11:47 AM

IIW2005: Marry Ruddy on Use Cases

Mary Ruddy is speaking on Use Cases for the Social Web. Our hope is that by discussing use cases, we can lay a foundation for later discussion and give everyone a common frame of reference. Mary makes the point... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 10:49 AM

IIW2005: Doc Searls

Doc is leading out today giving a foundation for why identity matters. Markets are places where people meet to exchange things and make culture. Free markets are not "your choice of silo." Doc notes that the difference between "content"... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 10:09 AM

IIW2005 IRC Channel

If you're trying to follow along at home, there is an IRC channel at irc.freenode.net/#identity... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 26, 2005 9:24 AM

IIW2005 Blog Aggregator

I've set up an RSS aggregator for IIW2005 so that people not attending the conference will have a one-stop place to keep up with what attendees (and others) are saying about it in their blogs. If you're going to... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 24, 2005 11:10 AM

IIW2005 Hotel Redux

OK, I chickened out. After I posted that I was staying at the Hotel Shattuck, David Kearns posted a note indicating it hadn't gotten good reviews. Looking at other hotels on the site, I wasn't too thrilled with them... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 18, 2005 11:12 AM

IIW2005 Hotel

I just made reservations at the Hotel Shattuck for IIW2005 based on nothing more than gut feel. Let me know if I've made a huge mistake. If you're looking for a hotel for IIW2005, there's a list on the... [Continue reading]

Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 17, 2005 3:32 PM