I recently picked up this piece from Evan Williams of Blogger and Twitter fame. Williams takes a different approach to that of the traditionally perceived access management flow where authentication establishes who you are and authorisation establishes what you are allowed to access. In the blog, Williams assigns the ‘permission’ aspect directly to authentication and … Read more
A couple of interesting access and identity management issues in the news over the last few days. I bang on a lot on this site about ‘persona’ and how i think this is different from ‘identity’ (i.e. you can have multiple persona but not multiple identities unless you are a criminal). A good example of … Read more
So, after my Identity Ramblings of yesterday, something a little more concrete and hopefully useful. As keen followers of my blog will know (both of you) we’ve been trying to do some work within JISC to help institutions better understand who their users are. I’ve been particularly focusing on students and the JISC Collections licenses … Read more
I was reading an old favourite of mine last night (A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham) and was struck by a list at the back of the book which listed all of the poems and songs quoted in the book, cited the copyright owner and expressed that permission had been … Read more
This morning is the morning of big hitters for those of us in the identity world and we start with Kim Cameron, who starts by defining the word ‘kludge’ and saying it is an ideal way to describe the world of digital identity. We have created an identity system online that is fundamentally difficult to … Read more