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Identity Schemas

Mon Sep 11 12:18:00 2006

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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