Dave Winer Proposes to use URLs for Digital Identity

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Johannes Ernst: Dave Winer Proposes to use URLs for Digital Identity, Johannes Ernst's Blog November 29, 2005

Not just Dave Winer, of course, but a growing number of writers. The advantage of using a URL is that they're freely and widely available, they can be unique, and they can be relatively permanent. The URL, in turn, points to other services used by the person, including identity services, and may provide information about the person, either directly, as a microformat, or indirectly, as in a FOAF. More...