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Gillmor Gang on Digital Identity

October 19th, 2005 · Comments

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Many of the major players in the Identity business all on the same one hour IT Conversations radio show.

Steve Gillmor, contributing editor, ZDNet

Doc Searls, senior editor, Linux Journal

Craig Burton, founding member, Novell; co-founder, The Burton Group

Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s Architect of Identity and Access Systems

Dave Winer, father of RSS and more

Marc Canter, Broadband Mechanics

Bryan Field-Elliot, CTO, Ping Identity Corporation

Phil Windley, Brigham Young University

Drummond Reed, CTO, Cordance

The Gang digs deeper into digital identity with a panel of experts. It begins as a Kumbaya of identity vendors and technologies, but by the second half the gloves come off. Craig points out that everyone has built silos so far because there have been no alternatives. Is the idea of a Microsoft silo “old fashioned thinking,� as Kim suggests, defending the company he joined not all that long ago? He then presents the first five of his seven Laws of Identity—clearly well thought out and vendor independent as all agree…

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