Here is a thought on privacy in Germany: it often appears that privacy protection is taken very seriously in Germany and citizens have decent control over who gets access to their personally identifiable information. I was under that impression myself…
Category: Identity
I recently decided to join facebook (to be precise, right after reading Lauren’s blog). So far it seems like an interesting little social tool, that benefits hugely from it wide support in the academic community. What make facebook really interesting…
We all know that there is little agreement on the definition of identity, digital identity, identity (meta) system(s), user centricity, etc. There are probably as many definitions of these terms out there, as there are actors playing in this market.…
Today, our OpenID provider finaly went into production. As some may have noticed, http://openid.sun.com/ has been live for some time now, and the team has been playing around with it. As of last night, we (or more precisely: Hubert) flipped…
You can find some information on this at the “On The Record” blog, including a link to the official text of the NAC. Now let’s hope that more folks issue a similar covenant. This time, Eve was faster than me…
Drummond blogged about semantically meaningful identifiers – really interesting. I particularly like his example … and Drummond: I am perfectly happy for you to use my identifier in this example 😉 tag: identity, XRI, OpenID
Today, we (pre)-announced at the IIW 2007 a non-assertion covenant (NAC) for OpenID. What does this mean? First, the NAC is a short (three paragraphs) legally binding document that licenses all of Sun’s patents (and not only necessary claims) to…
Here are my slides to yesterday’s mini talk in the java.net community corner. OpenID JavaOne.pdf (380.11 KB) tag: identity, OpenID, sunopenid
I will be giving an OpenID talk at JavaOne this afternoon at 4:00pm in the java.net Community Corner in the Pavilion. In this, I will explain Sun’s recent press announcement and shed some light on what we are planning to…
Paul has a wonderful letter to Hubert on his blog … Sorry Paul, 5 CDN will not do – but here is a web site that might help 😉 tag: identity, OpenID, opensource, sunopenid