The call for nominations for the 2011 IDDY (IDentity Deployment of the Year) Awards is now open! Kantara Initiative is excited to continue this awards program for…
View More Call for nominations for the Kantara Initiative 2011 IDDY (IDentity Deployment of the Year) AwardsAuthor: Nat
Having been working on Digital Identity since 2000.
Co-author of various identity related specifications like OpenID Connect, JSON Web Token.
Chair of the OpenID Foundation (2011-)
Vice Chair of the OpenID Foundation (2010),
Founder of OpenID Foundation Japan (2008-),
Trustee of Kantara Initiative (2009-).
Re: OpenID provider imploding, chaos coming?
Yet another OpenID provider is going under. On Sept. 30 when Six Apart officially shuts down VOX, a blogging site and an OpenID provider. I…
View More Re: OpenID provider imploding, chaos coming?Is expressing Levels enough for LoA2+?
LoA stands for Level of Assurance. Most popular reference to this idea may be OMB M04-04 and NIST SP800-63. Essentially, it classifies the identities into…
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Japanese government went live with OpenID/AB
Japanese government went live with OpenID Artifact Binding (AB) draft07. It uses usual OpenID 2.0 to connect to major OpenID providers and uses AB to…
View More Japanese government went live with OpenID/ABIdentify Conference #7
Today, we had the 7th Identity Conference (aka IdCon #7) at Yahoo! Japan. It started at 7pm Japan Time. Detail of the conference is here.…
View More Identify Conference #7How to Set Up OpenID on Your Own Domain with fallback proivder
Saw Gina Tripani’s followup post to Chriss Messina’s comments on This Week in Google. http://smarterware.org/6286/how-to-set-up-openid-on-your-own-domain/ It is very good to hear that people turns out…
View More How to Set Up OpenID on Your Own Domain with fallback proivderOAuth 2.0: Scope Params and access_token format
Current draft of OAuth 2.0 http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-oauth-v2/ does not seem to define a standard way of defining “scopes”. It is totally Authorization Server dependent. If it…
View More OAuth 2.0: Scope Params and access_token formatOAuth 2.0 Extension Mechanism Proposal
Defining an Extension Mechanism for both request and response would generally be useful. Some basic design principles: No name space through type URI: fixed registered…
View More OAuth 2.0 Extension Mechanism ProposalKDDI started supporting OpenID
According to their news release, the second largest telco in Japan, KDDI, has started supporting OpenID and payment service using the identifier obtained through OpenID…
View More KDDI started supporting OpenIDOpenID TechNight #6
“OpenID TechNight vol.6”, a technical seminar hosted by OpenID Foundation Japan (OIDF-J) took place on May 28, 2010 at NRI. Here is the summary: Introduction…
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