Standards? You want standards?

Read Marc Canter's Intro to Open Standards Architecture. We can use what we've already got to go from here:

to this:
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The how and the what are:

and the final result is

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This ties in with Jon Udell's recent piece Converging on Identity. Take a look at his identity-centric diagram. Jon notes:

There is an organizing principle here, identity, but it too is plural. Users, devices, networks, and services all have identities. More than convergence of devices and data types, it is a convergence based on identity that we seek. Businesses need to condense multiple touch points into that elusive single construct, the representation of the customer. Individuals need to manage business and personal lives on the same networks and devices, from home, the office, or the road. Web services must be able to authenticate people, or services, or devices, using credentials that are institutional, personal, network-defined, or device-specific.

This all gets back to Jay's Law of the Net: Everything's connected.

Posted by Jay Cross at February 4, 2003 05:25 PM | TrackBack