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Episode #60 of STODID

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:47:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID (click here to listen), I interview Dale Olds Distinguished Engineer at Novell and leader of the Bandit project. In it we discuss the recent demonstration at the Brainshare conference of Novell's work on the open source identity selector based on Microsoft's CardSpace identity selector (Click here for Dale's blog post for more details regarding the demo).

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Episode #59 of STODID

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:56:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID (click here to listen) I interview Don Blumenthal, former Internet Lab Coordinator, Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission. Don and I discuss various topics including:

- The origin of the FTC's jurisdiction over online privacy policies

- Don's early involvement at the intersection of privacy law, policy, technology and enforcement

- Don's motivation to shift from a long career in government to private practice

Episode #58 of STODID

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:14:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID (click here to listen) I interview Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel, Google, Inc. In this interview Peter and I focus on various topics related to:

- How Peter initially got involved in online privacy

- Background regarding Google's recent announcement regarding their new search data retention policy.

- Privacy enhancing technologies developed by Google

- Emerging privacy challenges resulting from new technologies such as "data cloud services" and trends such as user generated content

Episode #57 of STODID

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:07:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID (click here to listen) I interview Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. My interview with Mr. Harper focuses on various topics presented in his book Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood. During the interview I ask Jim to expand on some of the concepts presented in his book, such as:

- How the identification process is as important to human survival as the air we breath

- How identification is an indispensable form of social, economic and civic "glue"

- Anonymity's critical role in people's ability to craft their identity

- The distinction between identification and authorization

- The ills resulting from governments promotion of global unique identifiers

- The "credentialing" industry, a market perhaps as large and important as financial transactions and communications markets

Episode #56 of STODID

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:40:00 PDT

This interview features, Kirk Herath Associate Vice-President, Associate General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer for Nationwide Insurance Company and its affiliates based in Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. Herath leads a team that has primary responsibility for corporate privacy policy and implementing privacy across all of Nationwide's businesses. He represents Nationwide's interests on many industry and business privacy groups and before U.S. Federal legislative and regulatory bodies. He is also responsible for all legal issues impacting privacy, information security, confidentiality and data integrity.

Kirk is acting President of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He serves on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. Kirk is also an editorial board member for Peppers & Rogers Inside Privacy "1 to 1 Report" and sits on the Ponemon Institute for Privacy advisory board. Finally, he is a member of the Information Policy Institute's Advisory Board.

In this episode I ask Kirk to share his views on emerging federal privacy legislation, particularly related to data breach notification laws. We also discuss some of his experiences building privacy consciousness within a Fortune 1000 company. Last I ask Mr. Herath to share his views on emerging technologies and companies that are leaders in providing products and services that bridge privacy policy and data security functions.

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Episode #55 of STODID

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:00:00 PST

This interview features, Terrell Russell who is a Ph.D. student at SILS at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Terrell's research involves a number of projects that relate to digital identity. For example, Terrell and Fred Stutzman started claimID in response to a perceived need for people to have a voice in what is being said about them online.

This interview features Terrell's work related to Contextual Authority Tagging, which Terrell describes as the use of folksonomy to discover and define cognitive authority through reputation within communities of users.

I originally learned of Terrell's work through Eugene Eric Kim's blog, quoted below:

"What was he doing that I found so compelling? It was his Ph.D. research on ContextualAuthorityTagging. The basis of the idea is simple: The best way to identify an authority on a topic is not to ask people to self-identify themselves as such, but to ask others to identify the people they consider to be the authorities. We can leverage this principle to locate expertise by building tagging systems where users tag other users with information about their expertise. (LWT)"

Terrell asked me to mention that he will be attending SXSW when this podcast is posted so if anyone interested in his work will also be attending be sure to get in touch with him.

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Episode #54 of STODID

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:00:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview Alice Marwick a PhD candidate in the Department of Culture and Communications at NYU and social software consultant. Alice specializes in social networking, collaborative culture and online identity and self-presentation. In this interview, Alice and I talk about the origins of online identity theory, including the work of Sherry Turkle. Alice also stresses the importance of recognizing the fact that most new identity systems are being designed by individuals within entities that have a profit motive and that as a result these systems are prone (without malicious intent) to favor commercial interests over those of individuals.

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Episode #53 of STODID

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:00:00 PST

A discussion among four listeners regarding their current interests in digital ID outside of the OpenID realm (as suggested by Paul Madsen) featuring Paul Madsen, Conor Cahill, Richard Piccarreto and Intellagirl.

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Episode #52 of STODID

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:10:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview Chris Carfi of the Social Customer Manifesto, who is involved with Project VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) which is being spearheaded by Doc Searls in conjunction with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. We discuss Chris' recent post, VRM Scenarios our discussion should help inform the discussion around the development of VRM technologies and infrastructure.

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Episode #51 of STODID

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:23:00 PST

This episode of STODID features (in alphabetical order):

Brett McDowell

- Executive Director of the Liberty Alliance

- Brett's Blog

Lawrence Rosen

- Attorney and Computer Specialist

- Former General Counsel Open Source Initiative

- Author, Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law

Gabe Wachob

- CTO, Amsoft and Equals
- Co-chair, Editor, Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Technical Committee, OASIS

- Gabe's post about this podcast

The main focus of discussion is Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and identity standards. Although the discussion applies to a variety of "community" standard setting contexts in this discussion the focus is on OpenID and IPR.

This podcast will be of particular interest to those who wish to contribute copyright, trademark or patent rights to a community standards setting process and those who wish to understand the implications of implementing such standards.

Episode #50 of STODID

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:29:00 PST

In this episode I speak with:

- Scott Kveton CEO of JanRain, Inc., and;
- Chris Messina of Citizen Agency, Inc.

Our discussion starts with a description of the OpenID Phishing Threat and then ends with some talk about the concept of Social White listing and Open reputation platforms (including Jyte.com).

And I also talk a bit about Paul Madsen's post titled, "TSOOI(AOBOOS) - The Story of OpenID (and occasional bits of other stuff)".

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Episode #49 of STODID

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:18:00 PST

In this episode I interview Brian Oberkirch who wrote, Openid, Portable Social Networks and the Darowski problem, which I discovered when reading Eric Norlin's piece, Brian Cracks the identity and web 2.0 problem on ZDnet.

Our discussion tracks his post but includes such topics as:

OpenID and single sign-on - easing the hassle of creating multiple login-names and passwords
Leveraging OpenID to extend microformats such as hCards and XFN.
New business models or leveraging OpenID to increase the value of your users existing social networks.
Brian will be posting a podcast on many of the above subjects that features an interview with folks at Linkedin so stay tuned to Brian's blog called, "Like it Matters" for more details.

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Episode #48 of STODID

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:57:00 PST

This episode of STODID features Identity Woman interviewing Bob Blakley (of IBM when this interview was recorded and currently of Burton Group).

In this podcast Mr. Blakley defines (among other things):

             - Identity
             - Privacy, and;
             - Reputation

The way he defines these things may surprise you in that he brings his sociological background into play when considering their meanings.

In addition Bob and Kaliya discuss Bob's "Axioms of Identity", specifically the notion that identity "allocates risk". In other words things that people know about another party involved in a "transaction" affect they way those parties treat each other.

My thanks to Identity Woman and Bob Blakley for an excellent and deeply thought provoking interview!

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Episode #47 of STODID

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:57:00 PST

This episode of STODID is the fourth (previous OpenID UX episodes are #43, #45 and #46) focused on the evolution of OpenID. In this episode I'm joined by (in alphabetical order):

- Johannes Ernst of NetMesh, Inc.

- Scott Kveton CEO of JanRain, Inc.

- Chris Messina of Citizen Agency, Inc.

- Mike Ozburn of Onya.biz

- Drummond Reed CTO of Cordance Inc. and co-chair OASIS XRI

The theme of this episode is "Hopes and Goals for OpenID in 2007" and in it Scott, Chris, Mike and Drummond make some predictions regarding important milestones for OpenID that they believe will be met before this year is out. They also present some ideas regarding prospective projects that might be particularly instrumental in fueling OpenIDs continued and rapid adoption.

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Episode #46 of STODID

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:53:00 PST

This episode of STODID is the third (previous OpenID UX episodes are #43 and #45) focused on the development of OpenID's user interface. In this episode I'm joined by (in alphabetical order):

- Scott Kveton CEO of JanRain, Inc.

- Chris Messina of Citizen Agency, Inc.

- Mike Ozburn of Onya.biz

- Drummond Reed CTO of Cordance Inc. and co-chair OASIS XRI

Although we start out talking about adoption issues related to OpenID the conversation eventually swings back to the "User Experience" (UX). Specifically Chris Messina describes his involvement in the Spread Firefox Campaign and then he draws parallels between OpenID and Firefox.

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Episode #45 of STODID

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:48:00 PST

This episode of STODID is the second focused on the development of OpenID's user interface. In it I'm joined by Johannes Ernst and among other things he reflects on some of the events related to OpenID that occurred during the recent Internet Identity Workshop. In addition we talk about the design of a new OpenID "badge". Our discussion ends with some talk about threats that OpenID might pose to entrenched interests and how, in Johannes view that the time is right (because the community is largely aligned and working constructively together) for continued and rapid advancement in OpenID development.

Show Notes:

- Greg Martin's Script
- TheSupportEconomy.com
- Doc's VRM site at Berkman

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Episode #44 of STODID

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:31:00 PST

In this episode of STODID I'm joined by Pat Patterson, member of the Liberty Alliance Technical Expert Group and Federation Architect at Sun Microsystems.

In this episode Pat and I talk about project Lightbulb, an implementation of a SAML 2.0 service provider in PHP and Whisky.

Mentioned during the interview are (in no particular order):

Episode #43 of STODID

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:26:00 PST

In this episode of STODID I'm joined by Johannes Ernst, Chris Messina and Drummond Reed and the topic of discussion is the OpenID user experience.

As Johannes writes on his blog, some of the reasons why this is an important and relevant topic are -

If we get the OpenID user experience right:

OpenID adoption will be easier and faster.
Attackers will have a much more difficult time being successful than they are today.
Users will have more control. OpenID is user-centric identity, of course, but that isn't very useful unless many/most OpenID users know how to effectively use the level of control that the technology allows them to have.
Privacy will be increased and better managed by each individual.

If we get it wrong:

OpenID will be too hard to use.
Attackers will have an easier time, not a harder time.
Privacy will be reduced, not increased.

And Drummond writes:

User Experience in the OpenID and Cardspace Paradigms

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Episode #42 of STODID

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:37:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, Avery Glasser, CTO at VxVSolutions.com.

Avery is a product architect, designer and manager with a decade-long focus on managed voice services, federated security and biometrics. Prior to co-founding VxV Solutions, Avery designed and managed products for Genesys Telecommunications, VoicInt Telecommunications, VOICE.TRUST, MCI and The Hartford. Avery works with Opus Research as an advisor and specialist on issues of network and enterprise solution architectures, voice self service implementations and contact center automation.

In this podcast we talk about the origins of VxVSolutions, their recent launch of vAuth (voice authentication platform) and integration with OpenID. In addition we talk about what markets Avery believes will be particularly receptive to their product offerings.

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Episode #41 of STODID

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:00:00 PST

In this episode of STODID I interview RL "Bob" Morgan, Senior Technology Architect, Computing & Communications for the University of Washington and Chair of MACE.

In this episode we talk about:

The origins of the Shibboleth project
How "educational identity" is distinct from digital identity in other contexts.
Mitchell's Ice Cream

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Episode #40 of STODID

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:27:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Joaquin Miller, Industry Evangalist at NetMesh, Inc.

We discuss User Centric Identity technologies (LID - OpenID - Yadis) and the technical and social implications (we reference Doc Searls article, Linux for Suits - Independent Identity)

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Episode #39 of STODID

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:01:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Kaliya Hamlin and Eugene Eric Kim about IdCommons.

In this episode we talk about the renewed energy that idCommons is experiencing as a result of changes underway. Changes that Kaliya and Eugene have been instrumental in bringing about.

Also discussed in this episode is Drummond Reed's fundamental contributions to Identity Commons specifically and to "open" digital identity technologies more broadly. Kaliya also asked that I mention the upcoming IIW2 being held December 6th, 2006.

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Episode #38 of STODID

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:24:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Gabe Wachob, Chief Technology Officer of Amsoft and Equals. Gabe is also co-chair, Editor of the Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Technical Committee at OASIS.

During this interview Gabe and I talk about his emploment at Visa International. We also discuss his views of the emerging business opportunities in the digital identity field among other things.

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Episode #37 of STODID

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:00:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Eve Maler, Technology Director, CTO Business Alliances Group at Sun Microsystems.

Eve and I talk about a variety of subjects including her early involvement in creating SGML and XML standards which led to her involvement in the Liberty Alliance and the development of SAML.

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Episode #36 of STODID

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:29:00 PDT

This is just a quick episode to announce that the interviews will begin again after a long break.

Next week I'll post my interview with Eve Maler of Sun MicroSystems and following that my interview with Gabe Wachob of AmSoft and Equals.

As always thanks for listening!

-Aldo

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Episode #35 of STODID

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:05:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Peter Davis of NeuStar. In this podcast Peter and talk about how he got involved in digital identity first at UUNET, then at NeuStar and also through an affiliation with XRI.org and i-Names.

We conclude by talking about NeuStar's recent announcement with Cordance of the Global I-Names Registry.

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Episode #34 of STODID

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:24:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Dale Olds, Distinguished Engineer at Novell and leader of the Bandit project.

Dale Olds was Awarded the Distinguished Engineer title at Novell in 2002.

Dale was the lead designer and implementor of NDS and eDirectory from 1990 to 2000. He is currently working on the evolution of directory services. Previous work includes applications for NetWare 2.15 and 3. Dale is listed as an inventor on 8 patents and has received Novell's Edison, President's, and Inventor Hall of Fame awards. His recent industry experience focused on Linux and internet content delivery services. Dale has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Utah.

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Episode #33 of STODID

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 03:32:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Conor Cahill of Intel Corp., formerly of AOL Inc., and a member of the Liberty Alliance throughout.

Conor and I talk about his involvement in the early days of Liberty and how Microsoft's Hailstorm project was a catalyst for both the development and architecture of the Liberty protocols.

In addition we discuss the Liberty's People Service and Conor shares his views on the viability of a single identity protocol.

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Episode #32 of STODID

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:01:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Sal Cali who is CEO/President and Founder of SRCTechnologies, Inc and Scott Pollack COS/EVP of SRC Technologies.

What peaked my interest in this company was a series of claims they made regarding the patented technology and it's "unhackability".

Equally interesting is their claim that their technology is the "closest emulation of the human ever created in computing" and is based on heuristic artificial intelligence, which "learns" and "makes predictions."

In this episode I spoke to Sal and Scott to try to get a deeper understanding of the technology they've developed and to learn more about their plans regarding the implementation and licensing of their technology.

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Episode #31 of STODID (Part II of II)

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:52:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview:

Eric Norlin

&
Joseph Jaffe President and Founder of Connecticut-based jaffe, L.L.C. and author of the new book, Life After the 30 Second Spot. Joe also writes the Jaffe Juice weblog.

Show Notes:

Fred Stutzman's Facebook research

Facebook (the dark side)

Bruce Sterling: Internet of Things

Tony Perkins on PodTech

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Episode #31 of STODID (Part I of II)

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:00:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview:

Eric Norlin

&
Joseph Jaffe President and Founder of Connecticut-based jaffe, L.L.C. and author of the new book, Life After the 30 Second Spot. Joe also writes the Jaffe Juice weblog.

Show Links:

Fred Stutzman's Facebook research
Facebook (the dark side)
Bruce Sterling: Internet of Things
Tony Perkins on PodTech

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Episode #30 of STODID

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:00:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Fred Stutzman,

co-founder of .

Fred is a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina, and the co-founder of ClaimID. Originially from Albany, NY, he is currently located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Fred's academic interests include identity representation, social software, the net-generation, and social effects of technology. ClaimID, created by Fred and Terrell Russell, is a step in that direction.

Of particular interest (at least to me) is Fred's description of his research regarding the use of Facebook among college age students and changing conceptions of what privacy means.

Also note that in the weeks since completing this podcast, ClaimID has added MicroID-based link verification, which is going to be an integral part of ClaimID's verification services. To learn more see what Terrell (ClaimID co-founder) has been working on with OpenID and multi-factor authentication - ClaimID is going to seriously turn some heads when we launch this initaitive.

Show Notes:

- ClaimID

- Fred's Google Tech Talk: Our Lives, Our Facebooks

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Episide #29 of Stodid

Tue, 30 May 2006 04:00:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID I interview Dave Evans of Corante fame.

Dave's interests in identity began with his early work with identity management systems in 1997. His primary focus is on the benefits of identity and attention systems to both consumers and advertisers.

In this episode Dave describes what he calls the Identity "stack" (his view of identity from a marketer's perspective). Included in that stack are companies such as:

Low Layer = Data Providers

Trufina

RapLeaf

Upper Layer = Data and Reputation Aggregators:

& MicroID

Other Links:

Identity Management Buzz from Sun Microsystems (iTunes)

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Episode #28 of Stodid (a.k.a. #27 Part II)

Tue, 23 May 2006 04:00:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I continue my interview with Johannes Ernst, Dick Hardt & John Kemp.

This episode which I'm calling the "User Centric" episode, was inspired by listener feedback and input. Specifically, the following listeners contributed their questions and ideas which culminated in this episode. My sincere thanks to each and everyone of them:

Julius Huijnk (Netherlands), Neil Macehiter (UK) & Greg Balanko-Dickson (Canada)

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Episode #27 of Stodid

Wed, 17 May 2006 01:17:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Johannes Ernst, Dick Hardt and John Kemp.

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Episode #26 of Stodid

Tue, 09 May 2006 06:32:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Brett McDowell of the Liberty Alliance.

Brett and I spoke about a number of subject, including Liberty's projection that 1 billion identities will be "Liberated" during 2006. We also spoke about Brett's role at Liberty and whether Microsoft's InfoCard will interoperate with Liberty's protocols among other things.

Other show notes:

- The Story of Digital Identity -> Please add yourself to the Frappr Map!

- Jerry Falwell

- Project Liberty

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Episode #25 of Stodid

Tue, 02 May 2006 08:15:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Jaco Aizenmann.

Jaco Aizenman is contributing to the development Virtual Rights, a new set of Human Rights. He serves as a director on the board of XDI.org. He is also the founder and Consortium Development Coordinator of the Free Software Consortium that created the Free Software Act, a new legislation that can protect FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) and the CEO of a small internet satellite access provider in Costa Rica.

Mr. Aizenman has worked extensively on Information and Communication Technologies for human development. Among others he had worked on the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank Development Gateway, Lincos, and Gilat. He also led the universalization of the email and website account in Costa Rica.

In this interview we talk about:

1. How he first became interested in digital identity,

2. The four human dimensions,

3. The Digital Identity Metasystem,

4. The Fundamental Human Right of a Digital Identity,

5. How it's seems unlikely that two guys from Central America (me from Guatemala and he from Costa Rica) would appear on a podcast about digital identity.

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- VP Human Right - Constitutional amendment

- About VRI

- VP & Extreme poverty

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Episode #24 of Stodid

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:00:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Christopher Zannetos, President and CEO of Courion.

Mr. Zannetos was a co-founder and is currently CEO of Courion and is responsible for setting Courion's strategic direction. Under his leadership since 1996, the company has built a customer base of over 250 customers, including 60 of the Fortune 500, and has been recognized as a leader in the Enterprise Provisioning market with a number of awards including the Upside Hot 100, Computerworld's Emerging Companies to Watch, SC Magazine Global Award for Best Identity Management Solution, eWEEK Excellence Award for Best Authentication and User Management Product, and the Harold Short Award given annually to the single most innovative technology in the IT Service industry. Zannetos is co-chair of the TechNet CEO Cybersecurity Task Force and sits on the Digital ID World (DIDW) Industry Advisory Board.

In this interview Mr. Zannetos I ask Mr. Zannetos to give the audience a quick introdocution to Courion. We also discuss the strategic drivers of Courion's business and why he believes facilitating both compliance and security are the keys to Courion's continuing success. Last we briefly discuss the concept of "federated provisioning".

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- Internet Identity Workshop

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Episode #23 of STODID

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:00:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Bill Washburn and Tom Maddox of Opinity.

Founded in 2002, Opinity is the first online personal reputation services company. Based in San Jose, California, the company's management team has 40 years of combined experience in high technology. Wongyu Ted Cho, chief executive officer, and Doyon Kim, chief product officer, founded successful Internet start-ups Dialpad Communications and Serome Technology, growing large-scale web services from inception to acquisition.

The following is taken from Opinity's "Market" information (see):

Anonymity is both the best and the worst aspects of the Internet. It liberates users from the superficial limitations of age, ethnicity, and gender; however, it also conceals the identities of unscrupulous users. Opinity's online reputation services protect individuals and businesses from the negative effects of anonymity without sacrificing the benefits of privacy.

Opinity is the first online reputation services company. It is the only organization to offer a consolidated view of quantitative and qualitative data from multiple online and offline sources. Opinity offers insight into individuals' past history on the web rather than business ratings such as those offered by BizRate, and Opinity's services are open to anyone who interacts or transacts business on any website rather than being a closed ratings system such as that offered by eBay.

Instead of inviting government to intervene in Internet commerce due to lax security, Opinity is leading the private sector to non-intrusive self-regulation. By partnering with Opinity, peer-to-peer companies give their customers access to a well-rounded view of the reputations of others with whom they may choose to interact and transact business. Having the data to make informed decisions makes interactions and transactions safer and more reliable. This, in turn, builds credibility and trust among customers and assures repeat and referred business.

Opinity gives individuals access to the information they need to make smart decisions regarding their peers on the Internet. Using Opinity, they can interact, buy, and sell with confidence. It also gives them the ability to evaluate and manage their own reputations, including control over the level of disclosure of personal information.

Show Links:

- Opinity's Blog
- John Postel
- Elliot Maxwell
- GIS
- Edufacts
- Trufina
- Authentify

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Episode #22 of STODID

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:00:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Dr. Bruce Hoppe.

Dr. Hoppe, is the founder of Connective Associates, and is a nationally acclaimed expert on network optimization with combined expertise in technology and organizational development. A leading authority on applying social network analysis to accelerate business results, Bruce has helped many Fortune 500 companies to optimize their operational networks with his groundbreaking decision-support tools. Bruce has also led numerous community renewal programs. He was a professor of operations research at Rice University and received his PhD in computer science from Cornell University. Bruce writes a widely acclaimed blog, Connectedness, full of practical and thought-provoking insights on business applications of social network analysis.

In this interview Dr. Hoppe and I speak about various aspects of social network analysis (SNA). In addition we talk about the connections between the field of SNA and digital identity.

Show Links:

- Bibliography for Social Network Analysis
- Bridging & Bonding
- Structural Holes: Ronald S. Burt
- Dr. Hoppe's class at Boston University
- Cp Square
- "What Machines Can't do" by Robert Joseph Thomas

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Episide #21 of Stodid

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:00:00 PDT

In this episode of STODID, I interview Philip Evans.

Mr. Evans is a Senior Vice President with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Boston. He consults to corporations in America and Europe in the consumer goods, media, high technology, and financial services industries. He founded BCG's media and multimedia practices. He has also advised the US government on defense policy and the challenges of homeland security.

He was educated at Cambridge University, where he graduated with Double First Class Honours in economics. He was a Harkness Fellow in the Economics Department at Harvard and the obtained an M.B.A. with honors from the Harvard Business School.

He is author of four Harvard Business Review articles. Blown to Bits, his book on deconstruction and the new economics of information (co-authored with Thomas S. Wurster), has been translated into twelve languages. He is a member of the British-North American Committee.

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- Blown to Bits
- Collaboration Rules
- Internet Identity Workshop

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Episide #20 of STODID

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:00:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview Mary Ruddy, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Parity Communications and co-sponsor (with Paul Trevithick) of the Higgins project at the Eclipse Foundation.

Prior to joining Parity Communications, Mary was Vice President, Strategic Marketing at Parametric Technology Corporation (NASDAQ:PMTC). Before PTC, she was VP Strategic Alliances at OpenOrders, where she helped sell the company to IBM's WebSphere Commerce Suite software group. Prior to OpenOrders, she was VP Advanced Products at Pegasystems (NASDAQ:PEGA). Mary was a early employee at Pegasystems, which is a developer of rules-based process automation software. Mary started her career as a Member of the Technical Staff at the MITRE Corporation contributing to advanced command, control, communications and intelligence systems. Mary has a degree in Mathematics from Smith College and holds a MSM from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

In this interview we talk about Parity's role in the Higgins project. We also discuss Higgins project goals and how they align with the objective of creating a user centric identity metasystem.

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- Higgins
- Higgins in the news
- Parity Communications
- Social Physics
- Eclipse

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Episide #19 of STODID

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:00:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview Robin Wilton, Corporate Architect in Sun Microsystem's CTO Team.

Robin's post titled, Is 'user-centricity' the answer to identity fraud? was the impetus for my interview with him because it addressed some issues related to user-centric identity and various types of liability we've been thinking about with regard to identity providers (those entities in the user-centric model that will issue claims on behalf of the individuals who use their services).

In this interview Robin describes his job at Sun and we talk in some detail about the concept of user-centricity and how in many contexts intermediaries will necessarily play a role despite end-user control of their "digital identity."

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Crystal Meth Addicts and ID fraud
Bruce Schneier
Willie Sutton
Mass Data Compromise

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Episide #18 of STODID

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 05:00:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview Ben Adida.

Ben is a PhD student in the Cryptography and Information Security Group at MIT. He studies cryptographic solutions to public policy problems, including secure elections, anti-phishing, online identity, and secure health records.

He has published research on a number of topics including:

Cryptography and Computer Security

Obfuscated Ciphertext Mixing, previously Public Mixing
Ben Adida and Douglas Wikstram
preliminary version on eprint.
Lightweight Encryption for Email - [PDF] [Bibtex]
Ben Adida, Susan Hohenberger, and Ronald L. Rivest
Proceedings of Usenix Symposium on Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI 2005), July 2005.
Lightweight Signatures for Email - [PDF]
Ben Adida, David Chau, Susan Hohenberger, and Ronald L. Rivest
preliminary version in the DIMACS Workshop on Theft in E-Commerce, April 2005.
Ad-Hoc Group Signatures from Hijacked Keypairs - [PDF]
Ben Adida, Susan Hohenberger, and Ronald L. Rivest
preliminary version in the DIMACS Workshop on Theft in E-Commerce, April 2005.
Self-Describing Cryptography Through Certified Universal Code - [PDF] [PS]
Master's Thesis, MIT 1999

Technology Policy

Evaluation of Voting Systems - [PDF] [Bibtex]
P.L. Vora, B. Adida, R. Bucholz, D. Chaum, D.L. Dill, D. Jefferson, D.W. Jones, W. Lattin, A.D. Rubin, M.I Shamos, and M.Yung
in Communications of the ACM, November 2004.

Show Links:

- Bruce Schneier
- Creative Commons
- Berkman Center for Law & Society (Harvard Law School)

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Episide #17 of STODID

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 05:00:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview Dick Hardt Founder and CEO of Sxip Identity.

A pioneer in the Internet sector and open source software community, Dick has been active in software development for nearly two decades.

Prior to founding Sxip Identity, Dick founded ActiveState in 1997. Under his leadership as CEO, ActiveState became a leader in open source programming languages and anti-spam software and was acquired by UK-based software company, Sophos in 2003.

His first commercial software work started in 1986 at Consumers Software where he ported one of the first LAN email packages, the Network Courier, to Windows 1.03. He later joined Paradigm Development, which did software consulting for firms such as Aldus, Adobe and Microsoft. In 1993 Dick connected Paradigm to the Internet and later founded hip Communications, which became one of the larger web development and hosting companies in western Canada. While running hip, Dick led the port of Perl 5 to the Windows platform, which resulted in an interest in open source software. hip was sold to a NASDAQ company.

As a successful entrepreneur and technology expert, Dick is very involved in the technology community, speaking at numerous conferences and holding a board position with the Vancouver Enterprise Forum. He previously was on the board of the BCTIA and Ludicorp. He is a Business in Vancouver Top 40 Under 40 award recipient. Dick has also demonstrated leadership in funding the Major Projects Fund for the BC Technology Social Venture Partners, a charitable foundation to support groups serving children, women at risk and people living in Vancouver's downtown eastside.

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- Sxip Identity, Inc.
- ActiveState (Activestate.com via Wayback machine)
- Salesforces.com
- API (Definition at Wikipedia)
- DIX @ IETF
- Blame.ca
- Identity20.com

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Episide #16 of Stodid

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:00:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, Kaliya Hamlin and I speak with Marc Canter of Broadband Mechanics.

Marc is one of the most recognized people in the sphere of social networks and blogging. Over the years Marc has also traveled all over the world, consulting to global corporations (AOL, EMI, Sony, JVC, Fujitsu, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Kalieda Labs and many others) and delivered speeches and seminars about the multimedia industry and burgeoning world of micro-content publishing and social networking.

He is the founder and CEO of Broadband Mechanics, a digital lifestyle aggregator (DLAs) company. Broadband Mechanics builds new kinds of tool and environments which enable everyday people to create and maintain new kinds of online communities. Additionally, it allows people to integrate, aggregate and provide appropriate levels of customization to media, communication and personal publishing. Through his company he has consulted Tribe.net, a leading social network funded by Mayfield, Knight Ridder, and The Washington Post Company.

Marc co-founded MacroMind in 1984 and began developing for the newly launched Apple Macintosh. MacroMind became Macromedia in 1991. He was part of the team that created the first multimedia player, the first cross-platform authoring system and the world's leading multimedia platform. Marc was considered one of the founders of multimedia and the strongest evangelist in the industry for nearly a decade.

Prior to MacroMind, he worked for Bally-Midway programming music for videogames. He programmed the first ever licensed music (Peter Gunn for Spyhunter) and killed more aliens and saved the planet earth more times than he would like to count. He started his career after college when he went to New York City to help his friends build a music studio called Noise New York. It was during this time that Marc gained valuable experience and expertise working with laserdiscs, laser light shows, NAPLIPS, pro audio and video equipment and a new technology called videodiscs.

(Note portions of the above were copied or modified from the original version which can be viewed here.)

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- MacroMedia
- FOAF
- Identity Gang (Lexicon)
- Dick Hardt
- Mix06

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Episode #15 of Stodid

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:00:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview Mark Wallace of the 3PointD.com and we explore the bleeding edge between real and online worlds with Mark Wallace of Walkering.com.

Mark writes about virtual worlds, video games and other topics and his work has appeared in The New York Times, the Finacial Times, Harper's and GQ among other publications. He also writes a regular column for The Escapist, and since January 2005 has been Editorial Director of the Second Life Herald, a popular online newspaper covering virtual worlds. With Herald publisher Peter Ludlow, he is the co-author of the forthcoming Only a Game; One Virtual Journalist, One Cyberspace Murder, and the Bleeding Edge Between Real and online Worlds.

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Ralph Koster's Declaration of the Rights of Avatars
Andrew Donoho & Papillon Project (best link I could find)
Rebecca McKinnon's blog

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Episode #14 of Stodid

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:10:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview Dr. Stefan Brands of Credentica and we talk about identity architectures that ensure maximal online privacy.

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Episode #13 of Stodid

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 04:15:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview Johannes Ernst of LID and Yadis. In this interview Johannes articulates the importance of lightweight identity systems.

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Episode #12 of Stodid

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:00:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview John Clippinger, Senior Fellow at The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

In this interview John and I discuss his and Berkman's interest in digital identity technologies. In particular we talk about the risks promising new technologies face as they become more visible and therefore subject regulatory pressures. More broadly John expresses his desire to "embed" policy in code as a way to shape technology policy before it confronts special interest and other pressures associated with "formal" legislative processes.

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- Thanks to Tim Post for his valuable comments!

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Episode #11 of Stodid

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:01:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview Craig Burton and Kim Cameron.

This is a follow-up to the conversation held during The Identity Gang II on the Gillmor Gang. Specifically we discuss the importance of Kim's 5th Law, The Law of Pluralism of Operators and Technologies.

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Episode #10 of Stodid

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:00:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview with Scott Blackmer. Scott presents some legal concepts distinguishing the "ownership" of one's digital identity information from the "control" of it. He concludes that a view of digital identity information as a "controlled substance" is perhaps a more accurate and informative perspective.

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Episode #9 of Stodid

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:00:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, Kaliya Hamlin interviews Jim Fournier about the origins of many of the socially motivated technical developments in digital identity such as XRIs and iNames.

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Episode #8 of Stodid

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:00:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview Mark Dixon of Sun Microsystems and we talk about some of his definitions for terms related to the participants in various digital identity transactions.

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- Discovering Identity
- Whodentity

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Episode #7 of Stodid

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 04:22:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview Phil Becker Senior Editor of DigitalIDWorld.com. Phil presents his expansive definition of digital identity and we talk a bit about it's equally widespread implications.

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Episode #6 of Stodid

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 22:00:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview Denise Howell who is a nationally recognized expert in intellectual property law and an early participant in the first digitalidworld.com conferences.

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Episode #5 of Stodid

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:00:00 PST

In this episode of STODID, I interview Drummond Reed of Cordance, XDI.org and idCommons. Drummond and I talk about iNames and XRI technologies.

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