Posts with keyword: iiw06


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 schemas together. Moreover, a community shouldn't have to go to a standards body every time they have an identity data storage problem. He brings up Ham Radio operators. If they want to use call signs as identifiers, who should decide how that fits in? X.509 dealt with many of these issues. There are well known problems with X.509 collapsing under
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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 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
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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 published the discussion as part of his Friday podcast. Speaking with Jon is always enlightening and fun. The discussion follows how real-world identity scenarios collide with the digital realm.
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