RunningWithBulls.com - The curse of Sanfermin

I have started listening to podcasts more often. This morning I was listening to the Irish Tech Podfather, Tom Raftery, interviewing Drummond Reed, the founder and CTO of Cordance (a company I had never heard of, but thats not to uncommon!).

From the Cordance.net site I find Cordance “has been a leader in the development of the OASIS XRI specifications for the extensible, abstract, location-independent identifiers needed for identity registries. XRIs are the first abstract identifier syntax to support both human-friendly and machine-friendly identifiers in one unified syntax and resolution protocol.”

What they are involved in, essentially, is building platforms for area of digital identites, creating a single online identity identifier “Infocard (which Microsoft are introducing into Windows Vista)”, as it were, for the netizen of the present and future.

As Tom, rightly mentioned, this sounded alot like the Hotmail idea of “Microsoft Passport” which fell on its ass. Drummond came back with some very interesting reasons why this was not just another Passport-like idea.

If you are interested in digital identities, and online presence, I suggest you go and download this now. This guy is involved at a level that is going to make the future of digital identities.

I want to hear Tom interviewing Bruce Schneier. He would be a good “alternative”, or I guess, a good observer on this new initiative.

Tom, go get Bruce. I’ll help if you want!