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Johannes Ernst

Biography

Johannes Ernst is an electrical engineer by training, software developer by interest, and entrepreneur by choice. He's best known for his invention of URL-based identity, calling it Light-Weight Identity (LID), which is one of the roots of the OpenID movement. He also co-founded OSIS, the multi-vendor initiative to build the Open-Source Identity System. His company, NetMesh, puts these technologies to use by enabling companies to interact with their users on the users' terms, starting with the user-centric identity layer. His personal blog (and OpenID) is at http://netmesh.info/jernst.

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Blog

Telcos and identity?

May 14 2007

At the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW), somebody just asked what role telcos could and should play with respect to internet identity. Good question. I hope to discuss this and other questions in the coming two days with the telcos present at this event. This time, IIW seems to have lost its… read more

VeriSign: OpenID to authenticate SIP

May 09 2007

Here’s a post by “VeriSign Digital Infrastructure Staff” pondering about using OpenID as the authentication mechanism for SIP. While this is still in the stage of “pondering”, I’m linking so you can ponder a bit, too ;-) Personally, I think if it can be made to work, this would be great… read more

Sun Adopts OpenID

May 08 2007

This week’s big identity news was that Sun Microsystems is adopting OpenID both as feature in certain Sun software, and by giving each Sun employee an OpenID. This is hugely significant for the rise of user-centric, decentralized, URL-based digital identity, as so far, Sun has been known primarily as tireless… read more
Johannes Ernst