Main Page - LID Wiki. User centric identity. Sign up to our mailing list to receive email updates. Emerging IdM Technologies at Catalyst: User-Centrism & Appliances It's great to see the increased focus on user-centrism at the annual Burton Group Catalyst conference. President Jamie Lewis remarked in his opening keynote that there's a lot of hype around it being a solution for privacy and identity theft and that there's diverging opinions as to how we'll achieve an identity metasystem -- whether it's Microsoft , Higgins , or DIX . Of note, analyst Mike Neuenschwander stated identity appliances and user-centric products such as those by Microsoft and Sxip, are two of the three emerging identity management technologies.
Personal Health Information Privacy » When is personal data truly de-identified? Pushing String » Identity planets, moons, and comets. A little while ago I talked about a universe of identifiers. At Johannes’s prompting, I’ll try to get a little more specific here. (No, I’m not talking about the Planet Identity site, but if you happen to be just joining the identity story at this point, following Planet Identity is a great idea in general!)
I’d like to respond on two points. One has to do with the utility of having an “anonymous” presence on the web, and the other has to do with “alternate representations” of myself on the web. So, anonymity first: Many people have written at length about the value of keeping your identity secret, even while going about your (necessarily public) business of living. It’s one of the reasons that people have been nervous about any kind of Single Identity Provider in the Sky that “knows” all of us. Now, on to the notion of alternate representations of oneself: I worked up a visual taxonomy to illustrate what I was suggesting earlier regarding pseudonyms vs. persona URLs (click to enlarge): Configuring a YADIS URL using only Apache — OpenID Enabled.
Main Page - Yadis. mIDm - Self-Identification the World Wide Web - by Stephen Downes. Projects & Collaborations Browse through the thousands of links in my knowledge base sorted according to topic category, author and publication. Research Browse through the thousands of links in my knowledge base sorted according to topic category, author and publication. Stephen Downes The Crocodile Dundee shot - in Kakadu National Park, Australia, September, 2004.
About Me Bio, photos, and assorted odds and ends. Publications You know, the ones that appear in refereed journals of Outstanding Rank. Presentations Lectures, seminars, and keynotes in a wide variety of formats - everything from streaming video to rough notes. Articles All my articles, somewhere around 400 items dating from 1995. Audio Audio recordings of my talks recorded in MP3 format. Calendar What I'm doing, where I'm doing it, and when. Photos A collection of my photographs. This is what I aspire toward, this is what I work toward. - Stephen Downes Stephen's WebSince 1995 OLDaily Edu_RSS OLDaily Audio About the Author Stephen Downes. OpenID: an actually distributed identity system.