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Doc Searls has written about a conversation he had where Dave Winer says:
Doc Searls, bless his heart, offered RSS and podcasting as examples of technologies that were simple, therefore successful, and suggests that identity, if it were to be approached the same way, might have similar success. Bzzzt. Wrong. RSS was not easy, it was [...]
William Heath from Ideal Government has responded to my previous post, saying:
I agree with your comment about the riskiness of the central register and I think your suggestion that identifiers be unidirectional is very sensible.
He goes on to make the sobering point that “… it may take ten years (and another massive IT [...]
Brick and Mortar Cards with Chips
I’ve been learning more about British Identity Cards. Here is how the BBC covered introduction of the legislation by Home Secretary David Blunkett, who said polls showed 80% of the population supports the initiative.
The proposed Bill is short (sixty pages) and makes an interesting read - if [...]
Identity and eGovernment in Britain
I’ve been taking occasional breaks from the long-running Christmas party and swimming upstream into my email torrent.
I have to recommend the British Ideal Government blog - “a web user’s antidote to personal frustration with public services” run by William Heath as a kind of wikki with a lot discussion of eGovernment [...]
On Monday (December 20th) my flight became substantially shorter and cheerier when I came across a terrific piece by Tom Zeller Jr. in the New York Times. “On the Open Internet, a Web of Dark Alleys” (registration required) cogently introduces the general reader to the idea that there is no magic privacy-invading wand that [...]
Standing on his head
James Kobielus of Network World and the Burton Group has astonished me by calling upon me to abandon my “cypherpunk” ways.
He goes on to say that the Laws of Identity “are at odds with the real, legislated, post-9/11 laws in this country and elsewhere. There are overarching authorities who are [...]
Totally awake at the wheel
Marc Canter must have a news reader running real-time, because he just replied:
Fine - I’ll trade yah some MSDN manuals, PDC bookbags and some old Flight Simulator disks for some juicy broiled prawns and a cup of hot apple cidar.
I really need more PDC bookbags for my collection, so this sounds [...]
Totally asleep at the wheel
I just received mail asking why I hadn’t answered the marvelous post by Marc Canter, father of Macromedia. I have to admit I was totally asleep at the wheel - could it be my day job?
Marc opines in his lovable blend of angel and baseball bat:
Here’s where Kim tells us [...]
Mark Wahl on the Third Law
Anyone who knows LDAP has probably heard of Mark Wahl. And they will likely enjoy this amazing page which defines Mark - are you ready? - as an OSI OID. For those who don’t know about this type of thing, oidy is way beyond nerdy (in the positive [...]
Stefan Brands’ Identity and Privacy Reading List
I asked Stefan Brands, who has both an academic and practical interest in identity systems, to put together a reading list of interesting papers and books on identity-related issues that we should take a look at. And I’m sure most of us will enjoy seing what he has [...]
