The largest Japanese SNS, Mixi, started to offer OpenID as of today. Mixi started to offer individual OpenID as well as
View More Largest Japanese SNS, Mixi, started to offer group authentication using OpenIDAuthor: 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-).
Estonia to provide OpenID to all its eID holders
This means that over 1,000,000 smart card based OpenIDs will be provided to the Estonian citizen. Around 80% of Estonian has something called
View More Estonia to provide OpenID to all its eID holdersMore on W3C TAG response to XRI 2.0
From [1] and [2] below, TAG
View More More on W3C TAG response to XRI 2.0TAG Response to XRI
W3C TAG posted a note that it is against XRI. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008May/0078.html Here is the arguments that lead to the above decision. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2005Apr/0095.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008Feb/0009.html Unfortunately, the…
View More TAG Response to XRIWhat is Reputation?
Being hopelessly jet-lagged, I was thinking of the suitable definition of Reputation. Previous one that I had in mind was around Reputation Score: Reputation Score…
View More What is Reputation?Reputation Discussion at iiw 2008
Had a discussion about Reputation and Trust at IIW2008a. Started to think that
View More Reputation Discussion at iiw 2008Et tu Paperboy.
paperboy&co. in Japan started to accept OpenID for its online bookmark service today. Unfortunately, it only accepts OpenID provided by: – OpenID.ne.jp – Yahoo! JAPAN…
View More Et tu Paperboy.OpenID Dinner @ Basel
From Left to Right: =nat, Robert Ott (OpenID Switzerland*), David Reindl (OpenID Switzerland), Martin Paljak (OpenID Estonia), Snorri Giorgetti (OpenID France, OpenID Europe, Chaiman). It…
View More OpenID Dinner @ BaselAre National ID Cards Going to Snuggle Up With OpenID?
The REAL ID Act of 2005 is said by some to pave the way for a United States National ID Card and has come under…
View More Are National ID Cards Going to Snuggle Up With OpenID?OpenID Compatibility
There seem to be some compatibility issues since the rise of OpenID 2.0. For example, something like http://www.readwriteweb.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-comments.cgi does not support OpenID 2.0 nor XRI…
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