About Light-Weight IDentity
Johannes Ernst,
Jan 06, 2005
This may end up being the year of personal identity, if the first week is any indication (and I think it is). Today's entrant is a strong contender, a system called Light-Weight IDentity (LID) that instantiates many of the criteria I have stated previously: it is light-weight, it is distributed, it is (somewhat) easy to install, and most importantly, it is in the control of individuals - there is no central directory service that acts as a wek link. I messed around with it this afternoon, installing the software and configuring it for my site - I ran into some issues, as it seems not to be reading my FOAF file correctly and is not properly signing me on to remote sites. But this may be a case of PEBCAK (Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard). Related to this is a nice discussion of Kim Cameron's Laws of Identity. Update: Johannes got back to me, we cleared up a few issues, and some stuff is working better - this is, as he says, bleeding edge, and problems like this are the norm - you can view my installation here and my lid.xml script here if you're curious.
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