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Skip to contentian glazer's tuesdaynightspots of thoughts: ian and friends rant, rave, and ruminateMenu and widgetswhat i writeMemories of Kim CameronThe Future of Digital Identity: 2020 – 2030The Most Forgotten Thing In Identity ManagementFinding your secret strengthsPrivacy Sigma Riders!Why self-sovereign identity will get adopted (and it’s not the reason you probably want)miscellaneous infoabout ianabout tuesday nighttagsArchivesArchivesSelect Month January 2022 (1) November 2020 (1) September 2019 (1) December 2018 (2) June 2018 (1) July 2017 (3) June 2016 (1) May 2016 (1) April 2016 (2) June 2015 (1) May 2015 (1) March 2015 (1) December 2014 (2) November 2014 (4) September 2014 (2) July 2014 (2) June 2014 (1) May 2014 (1) November 2013 (1) May 2013 (1) March 2013 (2) February 2013 (2) May 2012 (3) January 2012 (1) September 2011 (2) February 2011 (2) January 2011 (4) September 2010 (1) August 2010 (2) May 2010 (2) April 2010 (3) January 2010 (1) December 2009 (2) November 2009 (3) August 2009 (2) July 2009 (5) June 2009 (4) May 2009 (3) April 2009 (2) March 2009 (1) February 2009 (5) January 2009 (3) December 2008 (3) November 2008 (2) October 2008 (5) September 2008 (4) August 2008 (5) July 2008 (12) June 2008 (4) May 2008 (3) April 2008 (4) March 2008 (5) February 2008 (5) January 2008 (1) December 2007 (5) November 2007 (4) October 2007 (4) September 2007 (7) August 2007 (8) July 2007 (5) June 2007 (11) May 2007 (4) April 2007 (2) March 2007 (6) February 2007 (10) January 2007 (11) December 2006 (4) October 2006 (4) September 2006 (2) August 2006 (1) July 2006 (1) June 2006 (3) April 2006 (1) March 2006 (2) February 2006 (3) January 2006 (3) December 2005 (1) November 2005 (3) October 2005 (4) August 2005 (2) March 2005 (1) January 2005 (3) February 2004 (2) January 2004 (1) December 2003 (1) November 2003 (1) October 2003 (1) September 2003 (10) July 2003 (1) June 2003 (1) April 2003 (2) March 2003 (1) January 2003 (1) November 2002 (1) October 2002 (2) September 2002 (2) August 2002 (3) July 2002 (2) June 2002 (1) May 2002 (2) April 2002 (2) March 2002 (1) February 2002 (3) January 2002 (2) December 2001 (1) November 2001 (2) October 2001 (4) September 2001 (5) August 2001 (4) July 2001 (4) June 2001 (4) May 2001 (3) April 2001 (2) March 2001 (2) February 2001 (3) January 2001 (4) December 2000 (4) November 2000 (3) October 2000 (5) September 2000 (1) August 2000 (3) July 2000 (4) June 2000 (4) May 2000 (6) April 2000 (3) March 2000 (3) February 2000 (5) January 2000 (3) December 1999 (2) November 1999 (4) October 1999 (2) August 1999 (2) July 1999 (1) May 1999 (2) April 1999 (2) March 1999 (1) February 1999 (1)Memories of Kim CameronReification. I learned that word from Kim. In the immediate next breath he said from the stage that he was told not everyone knew what reify meant and that he would use a more approachable word: “thingify.” And therein I learned another lesson from Kim about how to present to an audience.My memories of Kim come in three phases: Kim as Legend, Kim as Colleague, and Kim as Human, and with each phase came new things to learn.My first memories of Kim were of Kim as Legend. I think the very first was from IIW 1 (or maybe 2 – the one in Berkeley) at which he presented InfoCard. He owned the stage; he owned the subject matter. He continued to own the stage and the subject matter for years…sometimes the subject matter was more concrete, like InfoCard, and sometimes it was more abstract, like the metaverse. But regardless, it was enthralling.At some point something changed… Kim was no longer an unapproachable Legend. He was someone with whom I could talk, disagree, and more directly question. In this phase of Kim as Colleague, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to ask him private follow-up questions to his presentation. Leaving aside my “OMG he’s talking to me” feelings, I was blown away by his willingness to go into depth of his thought process with someone who didn’t work with him. He was more than willing to be challenged and to discuss the thorny problems in our world.Somewhere in the midst of the Kim as Colleague phase something changed yet again and it is in this third phase, Kim as Human, where I have my most precious memories of him. Through meeting some of his family, being welcomed into his home, and sharing meals, I got to know Kim as the warm, curious, eager-to-laugh person that he was. There was seemingly always a glint in his eye indicating his willingness to cause a little trouble.The last in-person memory I have of him was just before the pandemic lockdowns in 2020. I happened to be lucky enough to be invited to an OpenID Foundation event at which Kim was speaking.He talked about his vision for the future and identity’s role therein. At the end of his presentation, I and others helped him down the steep stairs off of the stage. I held onto one of his hands as we helped him down. His hand was warm.Posted on January 12, 2022Author Ian GlazerCategories Random ThoughtsTags Identity ManagementLeave a comment on Memories of Kim CameronThe Future of Digital Identity: 2020 – 2030Some on the next 10-ish years in identity management.[This was originally written in December 2019: pre-pandemic, pre-US presidential election, pre-George Floyd. Truly, it was written in the “Before Times.” I thought about updating this before posting but that felt wrong – somehow dishonest. So here is the lightly touched up text of my talk which was given first in Tokyo at the OpenID Foundation Summit and then again as part of the all-virtual Identiverse. If you want to skip the text and go straight to the video, you can!My deepest thanks go to Naohiro Fujie and Nat Sakimura for prompting me to write this, Andi Hindle for his feedback. – IG 11/24/2020]It is my honor to present to you today. Today, it is my privilege to talk to you about my vision of the future of digital identity. When Naohiro-san asked me to speak on this topic, I was both honored and panicked. In my daily role, I focus on a 12 to 18 month time frame. My primary task is to help my stakeholders and, yes I have a multi-year vision, but I primarily focus on how my team can execute in the next few months to help those stakeholders. I don’t, as a matter of my daily routine, think about the future.So I was a little panicked. I am not a futurist. I am no longer an industry analyst. I am just a practitioner trying to help where I can. How then should I talk about the next ten years of our industry?I can name 4 ways to think about the future and with your permission I will briefly try all 4.Looking at the Past to See the FutureOne way to talk about the future is to look back at past predictions and see how they fared. I’ll choose 3 predictions:The Need for Password VaultingSAML is DeadThe Year of PKI (Again…Still) Continue reading The Future of Digital Identity: 2020 – 2030Posted on November 24, 2020November 25, 2020Author Ian GlazerCategories Identity ManagementLeave a comment on The Future of Digital Identity: 2020 – 2030The Most Forgotten Thing In Identity Management[What follows are some thoughts on usernames and identifiers. This was an extremely fun talk to put together. Many thanks as always to everyone who helped improve this talk including Chuck Mortimore and George Fletcher. – IG Sept 3 2019. If you don’t feel like reading everything, you check me out giving this talk at Identiverse in June of 2019.]What I want to talk aboutUsernames. They are the most forgotten, the most overlooked thing in our industry. They are, as we would say in the US, the “Gen X” of identity management. They show up; they do their job; they don’t get any credit. In fact, they do not get the same attention that their big brother “Password” and their little sister “Password-less” get. Instead, usernames do their job without thanks or recognition. But failing to pay attention to usernames can have major negative impacts to both B2B and B2C scenarios.Why this talk?Havingbeen incredibly wrong about many things when it comes to identity, I havedeveloped a habit: I like to re-examine my believes from time to time and makesure they are still valid. I like to root out the assumptions and the implicitprinciples, hold them up to the light, and see if they are correct.Customerneeds have driven me to think more about usernames. The very large program I amin the midst of at Salesforce has spurred this on as well.Butmost of all – usernames are incredibly important, especially given how much usethey get every day. And yet we don’t often talk about them.5 Aspects of UsernamesThereare 5 aspects of usernames that I’d like to discuss. These aspects overlap and,in the intersections, there are lessons to be learned.Usernames:Are not a secretMust be classified as public dataMust be memorableMust be uniqueMust be recoverable Continue reading The Most Forgotten Thing In Identity ManagementPosted on September 3, 2019September 9, 2019Author Ian GlazerCategories Identity ManagementLeave a comment on The Most Forgotten Thing In Identity ManagementFinding your secret strengthsTo grow your skills, you must know your skills. Problem is, that’s harder than it sounds, if only because we rarely carve time out of our hectic lives to do so. Might as well use these next few minutes to do so, and this post will give give a technique to help you along.We cannot think about our skillsin a vacuum. It’s a well researched fact that humans are horrible at assessingtheir own skills. We often inflate skills we do not have. We downplay skills wedo have. Simply put, we lie to ourselves about the strength of our skills.We need inner honesty. We needoutside voices. We need feedback… in order to examine these skills we have andthose we don’t.Evaluating SkillsIf you want feedback, it helps to have a bit of structure to shape the conversation. If you want to evaluate your own skills, it helps you to focus if you have a bit of structure as well. So what then should that structure be?I offer up this very simple model. 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