The Laws of Identity
April 19th, 2006
A popular document from March of 2005 which most professionals dealing with identity management are familiar with is Kim Cameron’s: The Laws Of Identity.
From the summary:
Understand the dynamics causing digital identity systems to succeed or fail in various contexts, expressed as the Laws of Identity. Together these laws define a unifying identity metasystem that can offer the Internet the identity layer it needs
It also contains some “words that allow dialogue”, including a definition of digital identity:
We will begin by defining a digital identity as a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital subject. We ask the reader to let us define what we mean by a digital subject and a set of claims before examining this further.