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Kim Cameron and Microsoft's Position on Identity "Many of the problems facing the Internet today stem from the lack of a widely deployed, easily understood, secure identity solution." From the Rationale document Kim just published. It's pretty much a lift from the original Laws of Identity. The original statement in that work was, "The Internet was built without a way to know who and what you are connecting to." The current statement is not quite so blatantly false as the original. I don't get it. Is the premise that everyone using the Internet is miserable, that commerce is stymied, and that corporations can't trust internet security? Or is it that it's so inconvenient that users won't use the Internet? Or is the premise that developers have loads of spare time to go back and rework code that's working just fine rather than work on features that bring their enterprises more revenue / visibility / or whatever? None of that seems plausible. When we normalize and reduce Kerberos, PAM, Identity Card, Ping, Sxip, and all the others, we'll find that there's much more to do over on the other side of Identity (what enterprises should know about who they employee, depend on, sell to, etc.). Today Rowed 5649 meters but at an even lower level of effort (123 HR) |
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