Some how … Wired online property was sold away from the magazine. Some how the logic of this was ridiculous to me. They would always have the text content of the magazine but none of the graphics. I am glad they are together again “one owner of one identity”.
Big Ideas
Identity related issues at the bank…
So the day before I went away to Gnomedex I went to the bank. I took out money but foolishly forgot my bank card in the machine. I don’t realize this until about 2 hours before my flight when I am travelling to the airport. I figure – hey there might be enough time for Brian to stop by the bank pick up my card and get it to me before i take off. He goes to the bank and they won’t even talk to him about. (he and I share a joint savings account at this bank – they know he is my husband). This is really annoying. But hey ‘security’. I figured they could call me on my phone number on the account or something to verify things but Brian doesn’t even.
So while I am in the northwest I go to Washington Mutual and get cash out. I don’t really call the bank cause I figure I can go and get my card from my local branch. I also want to keep using my credit card number (on the bank card) and do so to buy tickets etc. Today I am back and go and pay them a visit. They destroy the cards after like 2 days and they don’t even keep a record of which ones they do that with. There computer system can’t tell me if I actually did leave my card in the machine (are you kidding me!). If I report my card lost they will cancel the number meaning I can’t use it again and be without ‘a credit card number’ for like 7+ days. I am leaving the country on Friday AM so I will be away for 2 weeks. 2 weeks with no credit card number. It really sucks.
A teller in Washington State said I could get an emergency card perhaps in 48 hours. The costumer service person in my bank this morning looked at me like I was from outer space when I suggested this idea. With these numbers so essential to our ability to do transactions in the world couldn’t we have a way.
FREEDOM Infringed…
So I am really looking forward to the Liberty meeting up in Vancouver. I am working on buying an Amtrak Ticket for Brian and I back to Portland for OSCON the following week. To purchase a ticket I must give them my full name, birth date, and travel document information – this is my actual passport number.
I talked to customer service and was like – what do you do with the data. She gave me platitudes about how no one in there office was interested in my information. I was like – I work in the computer industry I am asking what happens to the data – what is your data destruction policy. She said they retain all data associated with my reservation on microfich at there head office for an undetermined number of years. I really would like to know from someone at Amtrak (if they read blogs) WTF happens to my data. Cause I know that customer services lady didn’t really know.
What does the boarder patrol do with it? That is an even more difficult question. I can accept presenting my ‘travel documents’ at the boarder when I cross but this data being inputed before we cross in the reservation systems is really crossing the line of acceptability. With all we know about how the US Government has been collecting data about us. I really don’t want to let them to collect any more. This is not Europe (or Canada) where there is a much higher trust of government in the population. The thing I really like about America is its freedom and the deep values laid out in the constitution. We must maintain these and I am afraid government surveillance is not a good. I hope we can get stickers that say ‘stop police state creep’ and actually do something about it.
Portland Airport Rocks…
I just flew from Eugene up to Portland. Both of these Oregon Airports have Free Wifi! Thanks for understanding the modern networked person. I hope more airports get a clue and do this too.
The unexpected posterchild of HollyHock
This was a very interesting expereicne – I go to HollyHock’s website to see when the Leadership Workshop starts on August 18th. Then I see this –
The picture was taken buy Kris Krug (an amazing photographer and bryght guy) and fellow Web of Changer – The conference we were at last year at Holly Hock.
I am happy to be one of their poster children because I tell folks all the time to go there – it is a heavenly retreat center. Not to posh, not to rustic – just right to relax and be. The view is amazing, hot tub over looking the ocean. Some amazing teachers choose to lead workshops there. My workshop this August is with Robert Gass.
I am posting this to wonder publicly about the deeper identity issues it raises for me in the digital age of flickr, creative commons and norms of usage.
They never asked me or even told me they were using the photo. What if I didn’t want to be there poster child? Is this really a non-comercial use? (the photo is licensed CC) and if it is not should they be paying Kris and/or me. I am not complaining at all and I really don’t want anything from HollyHock at all – I love them and want to help so lending them my photo for the season seems like a great way to contribute. I wonder about this more for beyond this situation.
i-names in the sphere
With the launch of i-names about two weeks ago it thought I would review some the coverage because it is interesting how people put all this stuff into there own words.
The most enthusiastic I-names mention in the shpere came from
derpressionisms with the title i love i names and so will you. It is great to see someone get it so deeply so quickly (he just learned about them the week of launch). It is really worth reading if you are trying to understand how it all works. One thing that is off though is the reference to XNS. That became XRI and XDI – two different open OASIS standards. By splitting the identifier stuff (XRI) from the data sharing stuff (XDI) it is more adoptable.
Saunders also picked up on inames calling them Your Portable Identity.
It looks as if the dream of a user controlled, portable identity is about to become a reality. I’ve been swapping email with Kaliya Hamlin about identity standards. She has pointed me to inames.net, a commons for identity. Christine Herron has also recently written about this effort.
What’s an iname? It’s a human friendly handle (mine is =alec.saunders) for a person or organization that you can use to organize all of your identity bits in one place – email addresses, phone numbers, IM handles and so on. Like DNS, you simply pick a registrar, and select a name. Services include single sign-on, contact, forwarding, and a unified address book.
Cool!
Someone also highlighted the idea of Identity Networks being here.
Wow! – Todays Surprise I was on stage at Gnomedex.
The audience did a shout out for who would lead the the “MVP” discussion here at Gnomedex. They picked me. This has got to be one of the highlights of my career so far. I was handed the mic and invited on stage (right then) to lead a discussion for 15min. Thanks to Dave and Marc for their vocal support.
I used the opportunity to talk about the gap that I see between the civil society – (the group forming network that has been a foundational part of america – DeTocqueville wrote about it) and the social tool building sector. There is a massive gap. I hope that we can find ways to bridge it.
The reason that I am involved in the Identity world is because I want to see people, the citizens in civil society be empowered. I highlighted at the end the potential to weave together – MircoAps to meet their community needs. Where is the “myspace” for churches? Where are the social network tools to augment the neighborhood or a city block mailing list? I hope this community can engage with my challenge to them.
The identity stuff is happening right now big time. There is the Identity Open Space in Vancouver July 20-21. and in Santa Clara Sept 11.
I put forward that several things – there are a few organizations in the intersection –
• Planetwork (where I am the Network Director) We are working on the 1Society Project to build open source open standards based reference architecture for the identity layer working for civil society.
InterraProject – local economy loyalty card and social networking for community.
• The Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network
• Compumentor (Net2)
• Aspiration (They have the Advocacy Dev III coming up at the end of the month).
Other things that came up during the conversation:
Today we talked about lifestyle businesses and success beyond the ‘massive liquidity event’. These are the kinds of companies that can fulfill the huge array of niches. There is an enormous market to serve civil society group forming networks.
There were some people talking about how ‘we don’t need tools’ – everything is fine or that online tools are really just good for interest communities that are not geographic.
Susan Mernit stood up and said to those being contrarian should listen to what I was saying – for those of us who care about open source we should make sure these tools work for civil society. The big companies – Microsoft etc. are making life management tools and we as a community should be thinking about them too.
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Identity on Rails
Last weekend there as the first official Ruby on Rails Conference in Chicago. OpenID, Rails and Identity 2.0: Building and Cultivating an Identity Ecosystem. was presented by Matt Pelletier owner of EastMedia a Ruby development shop in NYC that has done a lot of the coding for the Verisign PIP And Kiran Dandekar is a colleague of David Recordon at Verisign and presented at a different time as well….
Here are some of the best summaries from the blogosphere…
Blogging RailsConf:
Digital identity sucks!
* Repetitive
* Complex and inconsistent
* Poor UI
* Lack of control
* Unnecessary
An Open Identity system should be…
* Extensible
* User managed
* Open
* Perpetual (not just used once)
It’s about you
* The general idea is that when you go to a site, you are redirected back to your site, where you log in. The site that you intended to go to communicates to your site and confirms your identity, allowing you into the site you wanted to go to in the first place. And best of all, once you do login once, you’re on: Single Sign On!
* There are attributes that you control. You can specify the attributes that you want to share with each site.
* Some attributes (such as age, like if you are on a site selling alcoholic beverages) need to be verified. Certain companies would then be in the business of verifying OpenID attributes.
Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius
Kiran Dandekar made an entertaining point out of demonstrating the variety of information that has be made available about him in different contexts like business, community, family or alumni. The problem is, he stated, that identities and identity attributes are site centric on the web, so you have to start from scratch entering this information on every site and even identifying yourself, as opposed to when you – for example – board in the airport, and all the airline need to verify your identity is your driver’s license. The driver’s license is not issued by the airline, but nevertheless is accepted to identify you, because the issuer of the identity is trusted.
Matt’s presentation on Sunday morning was on OpenID and is definitely something I intend to track, as the architecture seems really viable. Way smarter than Passport.
Project Bantay
* Blend Yadis + OpenID and offer them as a service
* Building an identity 2.0 stack
o Protocol support
o Yadis
o OpenID 1.1
o http://openidenabled.com
o Mongrel
o A natural fit for HTTP-heavy protocols
o Tight, fast, secure
o Support for Handlers, Filters
o Zed Shaw is the man
o Identity server
o Single sign on
o Profile management
o Trust requests
o Consumer plugin
o Rails plugin
o Push-button simplicity
o Leverage Rails conventions
o Play nice with “old” idiom of user silo
o Bookmarks demo application
o Testing
o Interesting test environment
o Test libraries
o Test handlers
o Test Rails app
o Test cross-site functionality (Selenium)
o Mongrel Rules!
An identity ecosystem
* Cultivating Services
o Claims verification
o Dating sites: verify your gender
o pr0n: verfiy your age
o Job application: verify your green card
o No posting to kids’ blogs unless you’re <= 14
o Reputation
o Seller reputation
o Weenie reputation
o You can’t post blog comments
o No committing to Rails trunk unless you’re a verified pouty artsy wanker
o Trusting identity providers
+ Needs to be discussed
+ Trust chain
o Wide open marketplace
o Develop creative new services
Next steps
* Download the plugin – identity.eastmedia.com
* Download the bookmarks demo app
* Identity Server to be released this summer
* Play around. Use your noodle.
I guess there really is a california bubble
I just found out about the Digital Media Conference that happened in DC on Friday. I am looking at it and wondering – do they (east coasters) live in a totally different reality then we do in California?
The only user generated video on the list is Google Video and You Tube. They have no blogging companies or well known bloggers presenting. I bet they have not even heard of user-centric identity.
Emerging Identity Standards
I am deeply conflicted – Standards for users is happening at BloggerCon the same tim as Who Owns You at SuperNova.
So for both “”panels”” I though I would share that this week there were three major developments within the identity sector towards convergence around standards.
i-names global services launched
OpenID 2.0 clarified
and OSIS was formed A Giant Step to Reduce Uncertainty in the Digital Identity Marketplace
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Exciting Day for User-Centric Identity
Tomorrow the 20th of June at 7pm we are opening the global registry for i-names. This was announced a few weeks ago by the XDI.org board. There will be 7 initial ibrokers 6 of whom are opening there doors tomorrow. There is a great site explaining i-names broadly for people and organizations along with a developer site. Cordance (Drummond Reed’s company) has a new website up too articulating its pioneering role in brining user centric, privacy protecting digital addresses to the market 🙂
This day is a big day for many folks who have been working on this for various lengths of time (any where from 14 years to several months). I began working in the identity space first with the very early alpha experiment that Planetwork did for its 2004 conference. While preparing for that conference (which I worked to evangelize for) I had my first “identity woman” experience about 10 guys gathered to figure out how to kluge several systems together this identity stuff together and all day I listened – learning a lot and said one thing all day. At the end of the day we took a picture and I was the only woman there.
At the conference I was hired by Owen and the Identity Commons (1.0)along with Jan Hauser to work on driving adoption of these new tools in civil society. I was thinking today while talking to Bill Washburn saying that I didn’t think we would be meeting today at Harvard on all these topics if it had not been for Owen’s significant visionary personal investment in the vision of this new identity layer – that really empowered people. The specifics of that early program never came to fruition in exactly the way originally envisioned but the results have been demonstrable in many ways. So tomorrow if you get a chance be sure to say THANK YOU! Owen.
Yesterday, Monday the 19th was a big day with this proposal put forward to the Apache Foundation to become a project there.
The project would start with Yadis for URL/XRI-based service discovery, OpenID for web based single-sign-on and the basis of exchanging profile data, and to create a desktop component with a standard look and feel, ideally working with the Open Source Identity Selector (OSIS) project.
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Identity Gang now a group in Second Life
So today we had someone from Second LIfe talk on the reputation at the identity mashup. I decided to go to SL and start an Identity Gang there so we can have ‘in world meetings’. To join just go to Second Life and search in groups for Identity Gang and join! We need more then three members in three days to stay alive as a group.
Hopefully we can use it to augment the back channel at conferences like this when we are all listening to panels.
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Identity at Organizers Collaborative & A Model for Nonprofit Tech
I had a good time yesterday at the Organizers Collaborative Conference. I presented about the coming identity layer – sharing at a high level i-brokers, profile management and how people might manage their relationships with multiple civil society organizations. Two of my peers Jo Lee and Rob Stuart – long time participants in the nonprofit technology world were there specifically to see the latest developments and were impressed.
Earlier in the morning I stopped into Alissa Fencsik’s presentation on Technology Decision-Making for the Non-Technical Executive. She presented a good high level framework to help think about tech decisions.
At a basic level there is Infrastructure – it is like electricity you just turn it on and it works – all your staff have their own computers, they have e-mail accounts, you are doing regular backups etc.. With this layer in place it creates a foundation that prevents problems, minimizes damage if a problem arise and eliminates inefficiency.
Next is Automation with the goal of achieving business objectives more efficiently providing time savings, more information, addresses issues proactively not reactively and supports more effective and targeted marketing.
Innovative uses of technology are those that create social change by leveraging the new communication possible via the web and other information and communication technology (like text messaging). This might include new programs to address a community need or new tools that transform the ability to execute on mission.
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Mark Dixon – Best summary of Catalyst
Identerati by Mark Dixon
I got to meet Mark for the first time last week at the Burton group. He has totally impressed me with this aggregate list in table form of the identerati. check to see if you are on it – if you are not and want to be just e-mail him. It is an amazing collection of links at www.whodentity.com. He says this a the top of the page.
I find it fascinating to study people who work in the Digital Identity industry – the Identarati. We can learn much from each other as we all seek to advance the state of the art in this industry.
I cannot hope to meet or even read about each of the myriads of people who are contributing to this dynamic industry. However, as a student of Identity Management, I am constantly learning about new people and listening to what they have to say.
I have decided to share my list of the Identarati with you. This isn’t a top ten list. It is simply a compilation of links to many of the interesting people I have discovered in my quest of Discovering Identity. If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else you know for this list, please send me an email via =MarkDixon. I’d be delighted to learn about you and what you have to say. For those of you already on the list, please let me know if I need to update your information.
Identity Gang meeting Catalyst
We had a great Identity Gang meeting at 7am yesturday morning at Burton Group Catalyst. Paul put forward doing a Lexicon 2.0 to define some new things. He got some volunteers to help with that and is looking for more if you are interested.
Paul and I shared the news about Identity Commons “2.0” moving forward in forming a nonprofit structure. The purpose is to support the many working groups in the community having a common wiki and other infrastructure.
Identity as a Commons, like, air, water or energy
On the serious side of his talk here at Catalyst Mike N. put forward an understanding of market forces Identity as a Commons. Looking at the how the vendors none of whom can capture the plain have staked out positions in the mountains.
Along those lines one of the topics we will talk about at the Identity Gang meeting tomorrow will be identity commons 2.0.
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THE WORD: Managiziation
Mike Neuenschwander gave a GREAT performance this morning. Last year he destroyed a guitar on stage and assured us that it had a good life in guitar heaven. This year he brought us THE WORD: Managization. I captured it using my camera’s video function. You can check it out over on my Vlog.
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Burton Group coming up this week
Yesterday I checked into the Burton Group Catalyst conference and was impressed from the get go. They have blessed us with a box (instead of yet another cloth bag) containing the schedule and all the different ‘invitations‘ to the hospitality suites on on Wednesday and Thursday. They are super fun way better then the booth scene. SUN has a super hero theme. I wonder if I inspired this…Pat who I first met at the conference last year will be in the suite this year. They also have a really readable schedule. I am looking forward to doing a lot of vlogcasts (is that a word). If you are at the conference and want to be interviewed for a minute or two be sure to ping me. Oh yeah. I also poked my head into Identity Management 101. I am hoping to learn more about the enterprise.
BTW – what is the official ‘tag’ for the conference? I am assuming it is nacatalyst06
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My phone number is my number…not the phone compaines
I just got this note from a friend…it sucks. The government is ours not the phone companies but some how they are doing this.
REMINDER….16 days from today, all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sale calls. YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS! To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222. It is the National DO NOT CALL list.
It will only take a minute of your time. It blocks your number for five(5) years. You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You cannot call from a different phone number. HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS 0r go to: www.donotcall.gov
Register your home phone and your cell phones…follow instructions.
What if you don’t have home phone? Anyways.
UPDAT: Paul Madson wrote to tell me he thinks it is a hoax pointing me to about.com’s page on the subject. Oh well. it could be true and I have heard rumors that the cel phone companies want to make a directory.
Identity Woman Appears on Geek Entertainment Television!
If you haven’t heard of geek entertainment television you should check it out. I made it on to one of their latest episodes. “What is the Square Root of Net” from the Net Squared conference. Of course my answer to the question was ‘identity’… I am the second to last on the clip so you can scroll to the end if you just want to see me :)..
Another episode that I quite like is one shown in the ‘how to video blog’ session that covered the Maker Faire including the mulit-story mechanical giraffe.
They Also have a recent episode from the NerdSalon on Roomba Cock Fighting.