One thing that has been troubling me with the OpenID model and providers like myOpenID [LINK], ClaimID [LINK] and now MyID [LINK] is the notion of tying identity to a URI.
Will an OpenID stand the test of time? Is it intended to?
When you cross silos you often uncover ideas people haven’t considered. Take Identity and apply Long Now thinking. The Long Now is a term intended to encapsulate the notion of Long Term Thinking. The Long Now Foundation [LINK] "hopes to provide counterpoint to today’s "faster/cheaper" mind set …

A few weeks ago I joined Facebook (after much resistence). Facebook sucks you in, making it so easy to give up bits of information about yourself, many times without even realizing it. It occurred to me that I’m leaving pieces of my identity everywhere.
Last night I took a stab at listing out the various entities that know me, regardless of how they know me. The list is overwhelming. It quickly became apparent that to develop a comprehensive list was not feasible. What I ended up with was a good …

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting Jeff Jonas [LINK] during a vendor session with IBM. Jeff’s title is "IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist, Entity Analytic Solutions, IBM Software Group" where he is "responsible for shaping the overall technical strategy of next generation identity analytics and the use of this new capability in the overall IBM technology strategy".
Jeff easily stood out from the blue suits and gave an energetic and engaging presentation on some of the Identity problems his analytics software has been tackling in …

These are exciting times indeed.
The Semantic Web is gaining traction. Just a few short weeks after Twine being announced [LINK], a new company has released details that address the Semantic Web from another angle. The company’s name is True Knowledge and they are building a Semantic Search engine and API. Similar to Google, they will crawl and catalog the web but unlike Google, their technology actually derives FACTS from that data. You end up with an Expert System who’s knowledge base is the web. I assume they are exposing the …

Tonight I launched a simple CardSpace Managed Card Generator and Test Harness. It lets you generate a managed card, with whatever claims you’d like and then generate a test harness form for that card.
The card can then be used to obtain claims from a Simple Security Token Service. Lastly, these claims can be consumed and parsed out to complete the end to end process.
This might seem like a trivial exercise but I have not come across any other publicly available service that demonstrates the end to end flow …

Continuing the discussion on DisplayTokens [LINK] :
A number of you have emailed me directly and some have commented publicly with some thoughtful insight and I thank you for that. Vittorio has written a very thoughtful and detailed response on his own blog [LINK].
Going back to my original question which was "Does the DisplayToken violate the First Law of Identity?" I am not convinced it does. What I think I am discovering is that the First Law of Identity is not necessarily enforced.
In Kim’s words[LINK]
"Those of us who …