More Things about Federated Provisioning

My previous post on federated provisioning generated some interesting responses, both in the comments and in the blogosphere (see responses from Ian, Pamela and Pat Patterson). The topic has been so engaging (starting with Jackson Shaw’s post) that while I was writing this post I saw that Dave Kearns has made it the topic for [...]

On Anonymity, Pseudonymity and Personas

One of the online forums I participate in is commonly referred to as the Identity Gang (it is now part of identity commons). An interesting conversation took place last week on the topic of anonymity and privacy. The conversation did branch out a bit (as these conversations often do), but it did bring to the [...]

Does ‘User-Centric’ also mean ‘User-Burdened’?

Dave Kearns recently took on the topic of how user-centric and enterprise-centric identity could possibly co-exist in his articles for the Network World Identity Management Newsletter. In his first post, he discussed what the difference between the two is -  the need in the Enterprise scenario to have all identity-related transactions tied together from an [...]

Where does he get that wonderful identity data?

Finally getting around to participating in the latest stream of blog postings following up the “meta-directory is dead” and “daddy, does Active Directory grow on trees?” discussions… Nishant has already addressed some of these comments in his post from July 16. Mark has hit on other items in his post on the same day. Now [...]

Where does he get that wonderful identity data?

Finally getting around to participating in the latest stream of blog postings following up the “meta-directory is dead” and “daddy, does Active Directory grow on trees?” discussions… Nishant has already addressed some of these comments in his post from July 16. Mark has hit on other items in his post on the same day. Now [...]

Directories vs. Virtual Directories? Really?

Still picking my jaw up off the floor from this comment from Alex @ the ApacheDS project on Jeff Bohren’s blog. Seems Dave Kearns noticed it as well. So for those of you worried that Jeff and I might never agree on anything, you can put your worries to rest. Jeff’s response is right on [...]

Directories vs. Virtual Directories? Really?

Still picking my jaw up off the floor from this comment from Alex @ the ApacheDS project on Jeff Bohren’s blog. Seems Dave Kearns noticed it as well. So for those of you worried that Jeff and I might never agree on anything, you can put your worries to rest. Jeff’s response is right on [...]

Where does he get that wonderful identity data?

Finally getting around to participating in the latest stream of blog postings following up the “meta-directory is dead” and “daddy, does Active Directory grow on trees?” discussions… Nishant has already addressed some of these comments in his post from July 16. Mark has hit on other items in his post on the same day. Now [...]

Where does he get that wonderful identity data?

Finally getting around to participating in the latest stream of blog postings following up the “meta-directory is dead” and “daddy, does Active Directory grow on trees?” discussions… Nishant has already addressed some of these comments in his post from July 16. Mark has hit on other items in his post on the same day. Now [...]

Where does he get that wonderful identity data?

Finally getting around to participating in the latest stream of blog postings following up the “meta-directory is dead” and “daddy, does Active Directory grow on trees?” discussions… Nishant has already addressed some of these comments in his post from July 16. Mark has hit on other items in his post on the same day. Now [...]