Posts with keyword: lid

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Navigating User Centric ID Systems

Fri Apr 14 16:43:00 2006

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 MyLID not only understands LID, but OpenID as well. I've been wondering how to make the wiki accessible to LID, OpenID, i-names, InfoCard and others, but may have had it backwards. Because MyLID (the identity provider) is multiprotocol, the IIW wiki (the relying party) doesn't have to be. That is, if MyLID, MyOpenID, 2idi (an i-name broker), and other identity
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Capability Discovery for Identity Protocols

Mon Dec 5 12:50:00 2005

While is possible that a single identity system will emerge for the Internet, it's not likely. Hence the claim by Microsoft's InfoCard to be a "meatasystem" for identity. That is, an infrastructure that other identities can ride on. Alternately, others are building such a metasystem from the bottom up. Right now, that effort goes by the unfortunate moniker of YADIS. YADIS is a way of discovering the capabilites of various identity systems. Drummond Reed just announced that YADIS will also include i-names in addition to OpenID and LID.
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URLs as Identity

Wed Nov 30 10:24:00 2005

Johannes Ernst thinks that's URLs should be used to identify people. That's the basis of his LID identity system. Open ID is based on the same concept. Johannes notes that OPML has joined the party and talks about an emerging consensus on how it should work.
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IIW2005: Johannes Ernst on LID

Wed Oct 26 16:09:00 2005

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, can be hyperlinked, can be tagged, and can be accessed with a browser." People got very argumentative here. REST discussions do that. Johannes' conclusion: people need URLs. Similar argument to Drummond and XRIs, but with a different conclusion. Johannes gives a use case based on Doc's Company Relationship Management scenario and me trying to find a hotel in Berkeley. This
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Yet Another Decentralized Identity Interoperability System

Mon Oct 24 21:43:00 2005

There have been several proposals for Internet identity systems over the past 18 months or so, including Microsoft's InfoCard proposal, SXIP, and several URL-based systems including LID, OpenID, and Passel. Today Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal/Six Apart and inventor of OpenID), Johannes Ernst (of NetMesh and LID), and David Recordon announced a proposal to build an interoperability framework for LID and OpenID called YADIS (Yet Another Decentralized Identity Interoperability System). Here's part of what they said in the announcement: Working on this problem, we realized quickly that what we were really building was a bottom-up, light-weight interoperability framework for personal
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