Kim Cameron is the Chief Architect of Identity in the Identity and Access Division at Microsoft, where he champions the emergence of a privacy enhancing Identity Metasystem reaching across technologies, industries, vendors, continents and cultures.
Currently based in Paris, Kim plays a leading role in the evolution of Active Directory, Federation Services, Forefront Identity Manager, CardSpace and Microsoft’s other Identity Metasystem products.
He joined Microsoft in 1999 when it bought the ZOOMIT Corporation. As VP of Technology at ZOOMIT, he had pioneered metadirectory technology and built the first shipping product. Before that he led ZOOMIT’s development team in producing a range of SMTP, X.400, X.500, and PKI products.
Kim is a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer. He grew up in Canada, attending King’s College at Dalhousie University and l’Université de Montréal. He served on RISEPTIS, the high-level European Union advisory body providing vision and guidance on security and trust in the Information Society. He has won a number of industry awards, including Digital Identity World’s Innovation Award (2005), Network Computing’s Top 25 Technology Drivers Award (1996) and MVP (Most Valuable Player) Award (2005), Network World’s 50 Most Powerful People in Networking (2005), Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Privacy Award (2007) and Silicon.com’s Agenda Setters 2007. In 2010 King’s College recognized his work on digital identity by awarding him an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree.
Kim blogs at identityblog.com, where he published the Laws of Identity.
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[...] Interestingly, an MS thinker/architect, Kim Cameron (he has the groovy title of Architect of Identity and Access), came up with his Seven Laws of Identity which lay out what any IDM needs to do to work for the greater good, and based on this, MS has pushed out their proposal for building an identity layer into the Internet, called Identity Metasystem which assumes that people will have several digital ids based on multiple technologies, implementations, providers, etc. This is certainly the case with us here at UHI today, where we have users who have both internal identities looked after by the hosting organization, but also have the need to allow those ids to move outside our organization, allow people with ids outside the organization to access services we host, and, in the increasing online learning paradigm, allow our users to assert and make claims to other services with other identities while within our own environment. [...]
[...] I first noticed the workshop in this post on Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog. Kim’s bio is here. He’s the author of the Laws of Identity and the guy at Microsoft who’s responsible for the Identity Metasystem, Microsoft’s proposal for building an identity layer for the Internet. But there are many independent, interdependent and competing solutions either already in use or being proposed — and which I’ll try to feature as news comes up. [...]
[...] While I think Kim Cameron’s blogpost response helps clarify verification as it relates to Identity 2.0… [...]
[...] While I think Kim Cameron’s blogpost response helps clarify verification as it relates to Identity 2.0… “Right now we give all our identifying information to every Tom, Dick and Harry…What if we just gave it to Tom, or a couple of Toms, and the Toms then vouched for who we are? We would ‘register’ with the Toms, and the Toms would make claims about us and the chances of having our identity stolen would drop…†[...]
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