I gave a plenary keynote on the Laws of Identity to the TERENA conference in Vilnius this week. The intense controversy around Google's world mapping of private WiFi identifiers made it pretty clear that the Fourth Law of Identity is not an academic exercise. TERENA is a place where people “collaborate, innovate and share knowledge in order to foster the development of Internet technology, infrastructure and services to be used by the research and education community.”
People in the identity community will have heard me talk about the Laws of Identity before. However it was refreshing to discuss their implications with people who are world experts on networking issues. [Humanitarian hint: don't blow up the video or you'll not only miss the sides but become very conscious that I had several cups of good Vilnius coffee before getting up on stage.]
