{"id":589,"date":"2007-04-24T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/25\/a-crowd-of-one\/"},"modified":"2013-03-15T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T03:32:00","slug":"a-crowd-of-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/24\/a-crowd-of-one\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crowd of One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>No, it&#8217;s not a reference to the noise I manage to produce all by myself \ud83d\ude42<BR><A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crowd-One-Future-Individual-Identity\/dp\/1586483676\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/103-5136752-9264651?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1177463061&amp;sr=1-1\">&#8220;A Crowd of One&#8221;<\/A> is the very suggestive title of the latest book from <A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/home\/john_clippinger\">John Henry Clippinger.<\/A> It came out few days ago, and I&#8217;ve just got my fangs on a copy (usual <A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2006\/01\/03\/509089.aspx\">Borders<\/A>) on my way back from the <A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/lakebellevue.ilovesushi.com\/\">Japanese<\/A>. Mr. Clippinger is one of the key figures in the Identity scene, and this is a book I don&#8217;t mind buyng hard cover (<A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cogs.indiana.edu\/people\/homepages\/hofstadter.html\">Douglas<\/A>, every Sunday I get closer to buy&nbsp;<A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Am-Strange-Loop-Douglas-Hofstadter\/dp\/0465030785\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/103-5136752-9264651?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1177480686&amp;sr=8-1\">you-know-what<\/A> even if I know I&#8217;ll have maybe time to read it this summer, since it&#8217;s not directly connected to work).<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;ll have to find the time to read it with the attention it deserves, however I&#8217;ve made my signature scan of it. Few things jumped to the eye so far<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>&#8220;A Crowd of One&#8221;&nbsp;really explores idea in depth. In <A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/03\/07\/we-re-writing-a-cardspace-book.aspx\">our book<\/A> I&nbsp;write the opening chapters, where I get to introduce many of the key concepts: identity, trust, credentials&#8230; one of the sentences I often write&nbsp;sounds more or less like&nbsp;&#8220;this is not the place for making philosophy, however &#8230;&#8221; and then I cut short&nbsp;giving an operational definition. Well, it would appear that &#8220;A Crowd of One&#8221; *is*&nbsp;that place. Big time&nbsp;\ud83d\ude42<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>It is fun to see the Italian Renaissance taken as an example, and seen from a non-Italian perspective. You&#8217;d be surprised by how much of what is described there sounds actual, from the words (&#8220;catasto&#8221; still exists) to the practices.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>I&#8217;ve caught glympses of things I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with, like some OpenSource-Microsoft super polarization. The Open Specification Promise, if the author is referring to it, is depicted as a way of Microsoft of &#8220;coming to terms&#8221; with Open Source: I totally don&#8217;t agree with that, it is simply the act of aresponsible industry leader moving forward with the job&nbsp;begun with the&nbsp;introduction of the&nbsp;WS-*&nbsp;specs (which were <EM>designed<\/EM> to be THE EXACT OPPOSITE of vendor lockin). I had the luck to work with WS-* from the very beginning with enterprise customers, and I can tell you that we always truly bet on open standards also on the field, not just with press releases and announcements. <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>I think I will like how the author &#8220;instantiates&#8221; the Laws and lucidly explores&nbsp;what it will take to steer toward the Identity Metasystem. <\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P>OK, enough spotty peeking. As soon as I&#8217;ll have time, hopefully in few days, I&#8217;ll give the book the attention it deserves and I&#8217;ll eat it cover to cover \ud83d\ude42<\/P><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not a reference to the noise I manage to produce all by myself \ud83d\ude42&#8220;A Crowd of One&#8221; is the very suggestive title of the latest book from John Henry Clippinger. It came out few days ago, and I&#8217;ve just got my fangs on a copy (usual Borders) on my way back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}