Identity, Credential and Access Management Isn’t Exactly About Identity

This post is one in an ongoing series (starting here) in which I am developing the concept of 'Informational Identity'. Your name, your legal identities, your digital identities, are all the same kind of thing:  information tools created to pick you out of a crowd, to refer to you when you are not present, to … Continue reading Identity, Credential and Access Management Isn’t Exactly About Identity

Identity: Turtles All the Way Down

My thinking catalyzed by the great dialog among national healthcare identity experts at the ONC/CARIN Identity Summit in Washington DC June 4th, a notion I’ve been worrying for some time finally precipitated out: identity is turtles all the way down. There is not a digital identity separate and distinct from one’s legal identity. There is … Continue reading Identity: Turtles All the Way Down