DIYdentity Infrastructure

So I'm sitting at the Giants game (they rock, 'cuz they have wi-fi), a guest of Novell, next to Kaliya Hamlin, the Outreach Coordinator for PlanetWork, and evangelist for Identity Commons, the very name of which gives me hope that the grass roots dream I yapped about at DIDW last year may actually come true.

We're not going to have a real, Net-native identity infrastructure unless it supports the fully-empowered customer, and not just a way for companies to federate identities.

I've written and read and said a lot about identity over the last few years, but the stuff at Kaliya's links (she's evangelizing well, loaning me her laptop to write this) is the first stuff to speed my pulse since Andre turned me on to this stuff in the first place.

For starters, read this Social Web article by Drummond Reed (who won an award, two DIDWs ago), Owen Davis and others.

What's cool about what Kaliya does is that it's DIY, which is why I'm writing about it here.

Now, back to the game.