Posts with keyword: didw07

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Digital Identity 101 at DIDW

Mon Sep 24 14:16:00 2007

I gave my tutorial this morning. The room was almost full, which pleased me. I didn't have enough time--never enough time--to get to everything that was interesting, but I think we hit the high points. I promised people I'd my my slides (PDF) available here. At the end of the talk, I demoed using a signon.com issued OpenID to log into Jyte and authenticated at signon.com with a self-issued InfoCard using the DigitalMe card selector on OS X. We didn't have time to trace through what was happening, but interested people can at least try it themselves and see
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Kim Cameron: Why Claims Will Change Everything

Mon Sep 24 11:32:00 2007

Kim Cameron is talking about claims. Today's landscape is filled with silos. The perimeters are purposely impermeable. Users are reduced to the system's definition of them within those boundaries. Digital experience is organized from the point of view of the system, not the user--who employs many systems. There are gates at the edges to control movement in and out of each system. The technology landscape is rigid in terms of protocols, formats, syntax and semantics. The system represents a single source of truth. Users want to obtain a service, not be defined by it. We face all kinds of
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Phil Becker's State of Digital Identity

Mon Sep 24 10:08:00 2007

Some thoughts on identity from Phil Becker. Identity transforms security from "keep out unauthorized" to "allow access by authorized." Digital identity is the organizing construct for a distributed, service oriented computing that allows it to dynamically adjust to the needs of each user while simultaneously following the policies of various authorities who control and manage the data and applications being used, ad enabling visibility into what occurs. Identity today: Identity deployments now succeed far more often than they fail Identity virtualization and federation are prover technologies with growing deployment base Authentication has evolved significantly in response to use experience
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