Tag Archives: shibboleth

Why I’m going to Vidoop

So it’s not exactly news at this point, but it is indeed true that as of today I am now employed by Vidoop. This has been a few months in the making, so I figured I’d explain a little of why and how we got to this point.

I’ve been working in the Identity Management […]

New Beginnings

I guess I never actually mentioned it here on my site, but I’m getting married in two weeks. If you remember, I originally moved to California for Elisabeth a little over two years ago, and now we’re finally getting married. We’re both definitely excited about it, but at least for the next week […]

try { reuse; } catch (Ex) { reinvent; }

Earlier today, I wrote about the limitations of hCard primarily in regards to private data. After talking with Chris briefly and then reading Tantek’s thoughts on the topic, it clicked with me. I wouldn’t normally make two posts so close together about such similar topics, but I realize now these really are two […]

hCard is not a provisioning engine (for private data)

Last week I wrote about how hCard is much more appropriate than OpenID for the provisioning use-case and Chris continued that discussion, questioning why we need SREG and Attribute Exchange when hCard works just fine.

So the question is, when OpenID is clearly a player in the future and part of that promise is […]

OpenID is not a provisioning engine

In talking about the future possibilities of OpenID 2.0 and the Attribute Exchange extension, James Henstridge mentions,

Imagine being able to update your shipping address in one place when you move house and having all the online retailers you use receive the updated address immediately. Or changing your email address […]