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Maybe it should be "Human-centric identity"

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Maybe it should be "Human-centric identity"

Dave Kearns By Dave Kearns
Is the OpenID community making a fatal error when it assumes that an identifier always refers to a single, unique, human individual? That question arose on the OpenID general discussion list recently and the answers, to me at least, appear troubling Read full story

Dave Kearns is a consultant and editor of IdM, the Journal of Identity Management.

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05/18/09

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  1. Verizon shows off new rolling command center
  2. Microsoft's software pipeline set to burst
  3. Google ran out of bandwidth?
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  5. Where the IT jobs are: 10 American cities
  6. Microsoft IT goes live with its Geneva identity platform
  7. Google suffers major failure
  8. Nortel is certainly taking its time
  9. Rackable Systems becomes SGI, closes deal
  10. Poster on Chinese forum leaks next-gen iPhone specs


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