The Seven Laws of Identity

Posted by Zonk on Saturday July 23, 2005 @11:27AM from the you-are-who-you-are dept.

pHatidic writes "Something strange is a brewin' at Microsoft these days. Check out this video interview with Kim Cameron, Microsoft's Architect of Identity, about Kim's Laws of Identity." From the post: "We have undertaken a project to develop a formal understanding of the dynamics causing digital identity systems to succeed or fail in various contexts, expressed as the Laws of Identity. Taken together, these laws define a unifying identity metasystem that can offer the Internet the identity layer it so obviously requires. They also provide a way for people new to the identity discussion to understand its central issues. This lets them actively join in, rather than everyone having to restart the whole discussion from scratch."

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I win! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-23 11:28 · Score: 5, Funny

"We have undertaken a project to develop a formal understanding of the dynamics causing..."

Bingo!
Oops Microsoft, you don't know your own identity! by joelparker · 2005-07-23 11:35 · Score: 4, Funny

Tell me, Microsoft, what good is identity... when you cannot find your own web pages?
Browser report is 404 Not Found. Doh!
Re:Anonymity by Linus+Torvaalds · 2005-07-23 13:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Actually, rule zero is really that there is no global identity management system.

I thought the first rule of identity is you do not talk about the global identity system.