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  1. Re:What is a 'personal cloud'? by ihtoit · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Scientific Computing Workflow For the Cloud?

    Actually, this explains it a lot better.

  2. check out XRI - backlinks, identity, contracts by Broadcatch · · Score: 1 · on Indirect Documents At Last
    There's an interesting extension to the URI (URL) being created over at OASIS - see the XRI Wiki for details. It provides mechanisms for strong authentication and identity, symbolic links, back links, contractual data access/sharing, and forms the basis for Web 3.0 - a secure and privacy enhancing identity web with reputation mechanisms to aid searching/filtering and directing attention. (Disclaimer: I am on the XRI committee.)

    I've known Ted for over 20 years and love his idealism. I believe that XRI can provide a seamless transition from the current document web to the future social web (PDF), complete with authenticated transclusion.

  3. http://idcommons.net/press/index.html -more links by QuietRiot · · Score: 1 · on i-Names Pick Up Steam

    More links, blogs, articles, insight, and opinion can be found here:

    http://idcommons.net/press/index.html

  4. Related Links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1 · on i-Names Pick Up Steam

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  5. Re:Ping Identity Made Simple by Twylite · · Score: 1 · on E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet

    Check out the i-Name initiative at Identity Commons. It's standards-backed by XDI.

  6. Re:Ping Identity Made Simple by Twylite · · Score: 1 · on E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet

    Check out the i-Name initiative at Identity Commons. It's standards-backed by XDI.

  7. Identity Commons by The+Pim · · Score: 3, Interesting · on E-commerce Single Sign-On Not Dead Yet

    Not to bang on these guys, but for an open, non-commercial, distributed identity system, with working code, see Identity Commons.

  8. TheirID or an Identity Commons? by Broadcatch · · Score: 5, Interesting · on 'Open MS Passport': MyUID Goes Beta

    I'm concerned that it is just another centralized database of information. At least with Passport you don't have to worry about their database being bought by Microsoft.

    At Identity Commons we intend to give people full control over their personal profile information, including not only who has access to which parts under what circumstances, but also where which parts of it are stored. If you don't trust any of the "banks" you can store it under your virtual mattress (if that's where you keep your server, though it might get kinda hot under there).

    The free and open source code base is built upon two new OASIS XML standards, Extensible Resource Identifiers (XRI) which add (among other things) persistence and cross references to URIs, and the XRI Data Interchange (XDI) spec which enables a "dataweb", much like URIs enable a "document web". The coolest part of XDI is the concept of Link Contracts, that enable fine-grained access control over profile data while simultaneously recording the details that both parties agree to (and electronically sign) before any data exchange takes place.

    While we're still a month (or more) from announcing, we have enjoyed some good initial exposure.

    BTW: we're looking for people to play with the (pre-alpha) software (it's on SourceForge and there are even some CPAN modules) and help us bring it to the next level.

  9. Digital identity by vkg · · Score: 4, Insightful · on DNA Extraction From Fingerprints

    No pun intended, but this is really why the fight over who owns your personal data is so fookin' important. In ten or twenty years, the decisions made today about who owns your medical records, which databases can be legally connected or correlated and who the FBI has to talk to to see that data are going to vitally effect our civil rights on a scale we can't quite imagine.

    It's not unreasonable to imagine that in 20 years it will be as easy to pick up your identity from a retinal scan, a fingerprint or even trace DNA is it currently is to pick up your identity from your credit card or your supermarket discount card, and if we don't have more stringent policies around handling of personal data we're all screwed. There's no place to hide when your body constantly sheds ID packets. Your cells are you.

    Identity Commons is trying to get some stuff off the ground using a "governance-based" identity system: where the people who's identities are being stored actually get to vote on how the system is run.

    It's an interesting idea, and might (in the long run) offer some answers to that age old question: who watches the watchmen?