Passel arrives
Submitted by doc on Mon, 07/25/2005 - 20:12.
I've known about the Passel project for awhile now, but have been sworn to secrecy by David "dizzyd" Smith, who heads it up. But we're heading into OSCon, where Passel will be introduced formally next week, and everything is open to the everybody now.
Passel's wiki (its index page, above) begins,
Passel is a lightweight, user-centric identity system that enables people to manage their online identity. It is designed to maximize privacy and user-control of information which forms an identity. Passel is built on the idea that identity is composed of equal part social norms and 3rd-party verified information.
Passel is not to be confused with LID (Lightweight IDentity) or OpenID, which are two other open source ID projects. Johannes Ernst (of LID) has already responded here; and dizzyd has replied to Johannes here. There's also a discussion happening on the OpenID list, which the Passel folks have pionted to on their new blog.
dizzyd and Johannes are both members of the Identity Gang (as am I) which will meet next at OSCon. Looking forward to that.
London
When they gonna stop blow everything?
London
When they gonna stop blow everything?
WTF
These comments are like rubbish
Sometimes
Sometimes I can't understand...
But other said
But other said that the judgement induces common sense, tertium non datur
But other said
But other said that the judgement induces common sense, tertium non datur
As one clever
As one clever person said the judgement transforms tragical hedonism.
Interesting
Interesting opinion. But IMHO it's just an opinion.
My experience
I have great experience in that. So I can understand...
Anyway
Anyway I think that the author is right.
Linguistic
The autor has very good linguistic skills
Re: You seem confused
Yeah, I also noticed that
No comments
Are you sure? You must be joking. I can't believe in that
I love the way you write
I love the way you write. It's no wonder you have so many people reading your blog.
Re:
Don't pay any attention at these stupid people.
Re: De-ja-vu
U must be reading my mind! :) I also saw somewhere this text.
No
I'm not agree with you. Sorry.
Wondering on comparisons
Hello.
I'm glad to hear about Passel.
I'm curious about how Passel might compare with Drupal. Though I have not used the latter, yet I've seen it in use, at a number of sites, including that of your web-log.
Tangentially, I've been wondering how Drupal (now, also Passel) might compare with a sufficiently implemented Kerberos-based (or RADIUS-based??) system.
I've not worked with Kerberos, though I've read about how it works.
It seems like Kerberos might be sufficient, though it might be a challenge to implement, for a broad-area -- even wider than MIT's Athena, where Kerberos was born'd -- distributed authentication system.
RADIUS has just recently caught my own attention, for the supposition that it might be used for authentication, in a UNIX-style system -- as I understand that it it might be.
Granted, I should be able to answer on my own proposals.
I guess that I've come to regard the web, as that it may ever be something of a distributed design environment. I suppose it was born as such, in some analogy, "within the confines of universities".
SXIP
Doc, what do you think about SXIP? I have listened to programs on itconversations.com about identity management whenever I see them. Back in December, they had a principal of the SXIP network and I thought he made a good case for his network. I want identity management that I can control, in terms of who sees what data about me. As a signitory to AttentionTrust.org, I assume control of your data is important to you.