{"id":307,"date":"2004-12-06T04:03:35","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T04:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=307"},"modified":"2012-11-01T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T14:02:20","slug":"dick-hardt-and-sxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Dick Hardt and SXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Eric talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxip.com\/\" class=\"broken_link\">SXIP<\/a> as Passport redux. I think <a href=\"http:\/\/blame.ca\/dick\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Dick Hardt<\/a>, the CEO of SXIP Networks, would have something to say about that. Seems to me the SXIP folks have learned a lot more from Passport than Eric lets on. I don&amp;#39t believe they hold identity information or do authentication directly. They are a registry combined with a browser redirection technology, pointing to a user&amp;#39s identity provider and thus adroitly avoiding the very pitfall articulated in the Third Law. They call themselves the first &#8220;distributed public identity network&#8221;.<\/h5>\n<p>While checking out the link to Dick Hardt above, I saw his interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/blame.ca\/dick\/\" class=\"broken_link\">posting on the Second Law<\/a> (somehow I had missed this) and the statement that he was <strong>intuitively aware<\/strong> of this law when developing SXIP. I&amp;#39m sure he was also &#8220;intuitively aware&#8221; of the third law. I think his comment on the various meanings of discrimination is a propos:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" dir=\"ltr\"><p>This got me thinking that the basis of identity is to enable discrimination. I then realized that the negative, emotional response to universal IDs is a fear of unjustified or undesired discrimination through data correlation. Racism and sexism being the more evocative &#8220;isms&#8221;. We can &#8220;blame&#8221; the movie (or book for older <a href=\"http:\/\/vquill.com\/2004\/11\/blame-canada-no-blame-media.html\" class=\"broken_link\">people<\/a> )<a href=\"http:\/\/blame.ca\/dick\/#doh\" class=\"broken_link\">*<\/a> <strong>1984<\/strong> for surfacing this as a fear of the future.<\/p>\n<p>Of course we all want positive discrimination per the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cluetrain.com\/book\/index.html\">Clue Train Manifesto<\/a> and as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searls.com\/\">Doc Searls<\/a> promotes he wants in his relationships as a customer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I want to understand SXIP more deeply. Maybe Dick will help me set it up on my blog for those who are SXIP enabled&#8230; That would certainly help me understand it better.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric talks about SXIP as Passport redux. I think Dick Hardt, the CEO of SXIP Networks, would have something to say about that. Seems to me the SXIP folks have learned a lot more from Passport than Eric lets on. I don&amp;#39t believe they hold identity information or do authentication directly. They are a registry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=307\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dick Hardt and SXI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}