Drummond Reed podcast
Artist: podleaders.com
Duration: 44′57
Created: Thu, 16 Feb 2006
Location: Cork, Ireland
Category: Speech
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Producer: Tom Raftery
Episode 22 of the PodLeaders show.
My guest on the show today is Founder and CTO of Cordance, Drummond Reed.
Drummond works in the fields of privacy and digital identity - he is a member of the P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) Working Group at the W3C. He is also a founding board member of the International Security, Trust, and Privacy Alliance (ISTPA, www.istpa.org), where he continues to serve on the board.
He led the development of the XNS (Extensible Name Service) specifications and in 2000 contributed to the establishment of the XNS Public Trust Organization (XNSORG), where he was one of five founding directors. He is co-chair of the OASIS XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) Technical Committee with Gabe Wachob, Chief Systems Architect, Visa International. After the publication of the XRI 1.0 specifications in January 2004, Drummond became co-chair of the the XDI (XRI Data Interchange) Technical Committee with Geoffrey Strongin, Platform Security Architect of AMD.
Despite all those achievements, Drummond is a fascinating, down-to-earth interviewee! We talked mostly about the emerging area of digital identity (about which I knew very little before the interview!) and Drummond explained it so well and so enthusiastically that even I understood it and wanted to go out to get one straight away!
As always, here are the questions I asked Drummond and the times in the interview at which I asked them:
Drummond, first of all can you tell the listeners who is Drummond Reed, what is your background and what is it that you do now? - 0:52
Can you talk to us a bit more about digital identity, what it is and why it is needed? - 3:09
This sounds a little analogous to Microsoft’s passport - is it similar to that except more open? - 6:35
If Microsoft are getting involved with InfoCard, where is the information being stored? - 11:28
Is it possible to have as many cards as you want with as many identities as you want? - 14:28
If I want to generate one or more InfoCards for myself - can I do that now? - 16:06
Are we going to have another vhs - betamax issue of competing standards all over again? - 17:39
Are web apps out there going to have to be re-written to support the infoCards infrastructure? - 19:56
Are Apple on-board with this? - 22:07
InfoCard is going to be one of these things which needs a Tipping Point - will the release of Vista be that Tipping point? - 22:59
It sounds like a compelling technology - where do Cordance fit in to this? - 25:23
Why do I want an i-name? - 26:51
How do I get an i-name? - 32:11
Will there be issues around if two people have the same name or if two companies have the same name - how do they get their own i-names? - 35:07
Finally, how does all this fit in with your carpentry? - 41:52
Drummond’s business card (if you listen to the podcast, you’ll see why this is here!):
Download the interview here (20.58mb mp3).
Tags: xri, xdi, i-name, cordance, drummondreed. drummond_reed, tomraftery, tom_raftery, podleaders, vista, infocard, identity, digital_identity, digitalidentity, Digital_Identity, privacy, Identity_Management, Microsoft, Microsoft_passport, oasis, xns, xnsorg, istpa
Tom, this is great stuff, and I really should be listening to Podcasts - not listening to them is one of the glaring deficiencies in my geek character!!
It’s just not part of my life right now (I listen to the radio on the tram to and from work).
For those of us who tend to have Windows XP in our lives rather than shiny lovely Macs, would you be able to point me to a good resource for managing/listening to podcasts? What would you recommend for good listening software?
Hey Rob!
You raise a good question and the answer depends, in part, on how you want to consume the podcasts. If you want to listen to them while you are sitting at your computer (XP or otherwise) I have a Flash plugin which you can click (the little speaker and play icons just below the Producer at the top of the post) and that will play the podcast there and then.
Alternatively, if you want to listen to the podcasts on the tram (instead of the radio - I recommend this as you can get far more targetted content in podcasts than you will find on the radio), you could always use the Windows version of iTunes - or, if you don’t want to use Apple software, you could use Doppler, Juice or NewsGator.
Tom,
this was probably one of your best podcasts.
I don’t know how you actually got Drummond, but it was really really excellent.
As I told you today, I have had to listen to it twice, to actually listen to what he was talking about.
I would, however like to see some other commentary on InfoCard, and how secure, good it is. I have no doubt it is good, but I would like to see some other input on it.
Anyway, it was an excellent podcast. Congrats once again.
b
This was the best podleaders cast to date. Totally excellent and completely useful. It explained an important concept without shameful promotion of a brand or an individual which is hard to do when talking to most energetic personalities in any medium.
Thanks Bernie - I have told many people that I think it is one of the best interviews to-date but I think the subject matter doesn’t sound like it will be interesting and this is putting many people off downloading and listening to it.
“I think the subject matter doesn’t sound like it will be interesting and this is putting many people off downloading and listening to it.”
– well now thats just plain silly, Tom. This is as important as Digital Rights, Online fraud, phishing and other areas that will become interesting when more and more transactions are done online, ROS, banking, etc.
It needs to be explained and brought to the people! This is one definate, accessable way that the uninformed can become informed.
Well done again.
I know it is important Bernard but I guarantee that even if you mention Digital Identities to the majority of techies, their eyes will glaze over.
That’s why I think this is a great podcast - Drummond really gets across the importance of Digital Identities and he explains it in a way that even my mother could understand (which is great ‘cos she was able to explain it to me later
)