Empowering People and the Coming Layer of Identity (Link to Slides)
win-win-win for Citizens – Applications & Communities & Operators
People are empowered with their identifiers get good service at reasonable rates along with the Freedom to Access the tools they want to on the network (free from operator interference and packet discrimination)
Application Builders and Service Providers [...]
This is a great documentary about Net Neutrality by the folks who did Four Eyed Monsters. It gives a great overview of the history of other communications technologies and how they were enclosed after their initial burst of freedom and expression. I have a deep affection for the web and its power to [...]
The Question:
The one question I have about this collaboration announcement why Cordance, NetMesh LiveJournal or of SixAppart were not listed in the announcement.
The Answer:
Every PR department from every company has to get involved. Each has a constituency and message that it wants to be clear. Every time a change is made it has [...]
The one question I have about this collaboration announcement why Cordance, NetMesh and other companies who have made major contributions and have critical stakes in the OpenID community were not listed in the announcement. I know it was pulled together very quickly but I think the contributions of those two companies have been extensive and [...]
This morning at RSA Bill Gates and Craig Mundie announced MSFT support of OpenID2.0. (Johannes has a good summary of the points they made too) I wouldn’t go so far to say that they got Married. But what exactly was announced? I spoke with David Recordon and Mike Jones after the announcement. [...]
I got the feeling walking in a Rock Concert for security heads. Among the music they played in the opening was OKGO’s Tredmill Song.
Then when the show started they opened up with a man and a woman singing Under Pressure with “security lyrics” complete with a backup choir of folks it seems [...]
I am not sure that I am the right person to ‘provide answers‘ to the questions James McGovern suggested that the Identity Gang folks should address. I think that the traffic on the list about nomenclature does not reflect the actual amount of activity on solutions going on in the community. There are several [...]
Just after the holidays I heard about this Identity Focus Group meeting that the ITU was convening. It was suggested by David Recordon and Michael Graves that I go. I made a few more inquiries and by the end of the week I was talking to Abbie Barbir, Richard Brackney and Tony Rutkowski about going.
The [...]