Empowering People and the Coming Identity Layer of Everything is Kaliya Hamlin‘s talk from the 2007 Emerging Telephony conference. In it she talks about how identity management tools (specifically OpenID) can create a user-centric triple play between citizens, the applications / communities they use and the operators of those services.
As testers it is important to remember all three facets of this triangle when banging on some code. It might be great from an operations perspective, but if it is less than superb from an end-user perspective then it will (likely) be less than successful. The opposite arrangement is also true.
Here is some notes from the podcast itself
- email is broken as a communication method
- too many ids/handles
- I am managing the ids (not necessarily 1, but say a dozen depending on the context / persona
- Extensible Resource Identifiers
- YADIS
- authentication isn’t where the value is, but it is the starting point
- i-names
- Higgins Project – a context aware identity management framework
- Internet Identity Workshop – done for this year, but there is a link to a wiki, etc
The podcast page is here for your listening pleasure (streaming or mp3).