In Firefox, I have been storing urls to interesting things in a "to blog" folder on my bookmark bar. The hope is always, this would be good to analyze and post about later, but I don't have the time right now. The truth is, they rarely get revisited. So in the interest of sharing, and putting stuff in place more accessible, I will start quick linking.
Found some good Identity Management related resources. Digital ID World online and in print magazine. Interesting Digital Identity Predictions for 2004, in which are mentioned The Laws of Identity, an ongoing discussion to develop the nature of identity in light of desired federation and interoperability. These discussions resulting in the realization of said laws, was initated by Kim Cameron. Which as Doc Searl pointed out, is interesting because Kim Cameron is in charge of Microsoft's Identity Strategy. A good thing that there is a turn from a monolithic identity infrastructure, previously posed by Microsoft, to one that is distributed and diverse, as stated in the Fifth Law of Identity.
In article on Digital ID World, The Great Directory Heresy, Dave Nesbitt asks whether the rising notion that you can throw more metadirectories or suites and federations at bad data end up with a great enterprise directory is heresy. Its like putting lipstick on a pig he says.
Its a great question. Do you cleanse the data you have? Do you make sure you have the perfect directory structure? Or do you forge forward with policy and business logic to populate and push data out to where it needs to go with what you've already got? Will it lead to chaos? Or, as some suggest, is the IdM an interative process, where the idea is more important than one implementation? I do know that its quite easy to end up doing nothing, waiting for the perfect thing.
