Craig Burton

Kim posts the Third Law of Identity this evening:

The Fewest Parties Law of Identity
Technical identity systems MUST be designed so the disclosure of identifying information is limited to parties having a necessary and justifiable place in a given identity relationship.
You gotta love it when Kim goes off on passport and states a law that makes it obselete for [...]

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Kim Posts his second law of identity. It doesn’t exactly roll off of the toungue but I think I get his point.

The Minimal Disclosure Law of Identity
The solution which discloses the least identifying information is the most stable, long-term solution.
So to refresh your memory, the first law states:

The Owner Decides Law of Identity
Technical identity systems MUST only reveal information [...]

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A great article in eweek by Steven Vaughn-Nichols about the need to revise the GPL ends with a paragraph that reinforces my thinking that innovation trumps litigation:

But, perhaps even more important than that, the struggle to revise the GPL reflects the larger problem that software patents pose for the entire technology community. If we are to [...]

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Kim Cameron has moved his entire blog to a new domain name. www.identityblog.com. Cool. The only problem is his RSS feed doesn’ t work. I’m sure he will get it worked out. The permalinks don’t work either.
In the mean time, he comments on putting the identity laws in the lexicon crock pot. Thanks Kim. Like [...]

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I haven’t figured out how to read 2000 blogs a day. I don’t want to read 2000 blogs a day. I do go through about 150 though. Somehow Scoble does it. He also understands that traditional PR sucks compared to what you can do with a simple strong voiced blog. But I think he is [...]

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I transcribed a little bit of the conversation between Kim Cameron and Noel Anderson–a Microsoft Project Manager:

Kim:Wireless is changing a lot of things. In the days when devices were connected with good old copper it was fairly easy to follow along the length of copper and find out which device was connected to the other. [...]

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As I have already mentioned, my esteemed collegue–Kim Cameron–has started to blog recently. In his interview with Scott Mace at Digital ID World in October, he briefly chronicles his path to becoming the architect of identity at Microsoft. (Let the significance of that sink in for a minute.) Listen to the interview, it is worth the [...]

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Chad Dickerson snaps the Times Square blue screen of death. There it is–naked for everybody to see. What a great shot.

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Tonight Dave posted his thoughts on Microsoft’s botched search engine rollout:

Was there any reason at all for us to come to the briefing? There’s no difference between what we said to you four weeks ago and what the public is saying about the product now. We didn’t need to come from all over the world [...]

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My friends Marc Canter (independent) and Kim Cameron (Microsoft) are exchanging blogs about the benefits and dangers of doing business with Microsoft.
Marc contends that people don’t want to get locked into standards owned by Microsoft or Sun.
Kim wants to look beyond the past and create a “big bang” of distributed computing that would eclipse [...]

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