Whodentity?

Mark Dixon's List of the Identarati

I find it fascinating to study people who work in the Digital Identity industry - the Identarati. We can learn much from each other as we all seek to advance the state of the art in this industry.

I cannot hope to meet or even read about each of the myriads of people who are contributing to this dynamic industry. However, as a student of Identity Management, I am constantly learning about new people and listening to what they have to say.

I have decided to share my list of the Identarati with you. This isn't a top ten list. It is simply a compilation of links to many of the interesting people I have discovered in my quest of Discovering Identity. If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else you know for this list, please send me an email via =MarkDixon. I'd be delighted to learn about you and what you have to say. For those of you already on the list, please let me know if I need to update your information.

Thanks for stopping by. If you care to return, you can reach this page via the Whodentity? link underneath my photo on each blog page, or directly via www.whodentity.com.

Name Organization (title) Blog or other Web Presence
Gail-Joon Ahn UNC Charlotte (Associate Professor of Software and Information Systems Department)
Laboratory of Information Integration, Security and Privacy (Director)
 
Frank Auger Novell (VP, Product Management, Identity-Driven Products)  
Phil Becker Digital ID World (Editor in Chief) Digital ID World
Dan Beckett Burton Group (Senior Consultant)  
Gerald Beuchelt Sun Microsystems (Web Services Architect, Business Alliance Group, Chief Technologist's Office) Web Services Contraptions @ Sun
David Berlind ZDNet (Executive Editor) Between the Lines
Scott Blackmer W. Scott Blackmer, Technology Law & Consulting  
Tony Blair United Kingdom (Prime Minister) Article: Blair defends identity card plan
Bob Blakley IBM Tivoli Software ( Chief Scientist, Security and Privacy) Ceci n'est pas un Bob
Dan Blum Burton Group (Senior Vice President & Research Director) Identerati
Don Bowen Sun Microsystems (Directory Services Product Line Manager) Wizard of IdM
Stefan Brands Credentica (Founder and President)
McGill University (Adjunct Professor)
The Identity Corner
On the Identity Trail
Craig Burton   logs, links, life, and lexicon
Kim Cameron Microsoft (Architect of Identity and Access) Identity Weblog
Scott Cantor Ohio State University (Senior Systems Engineer)  
Steven Carmody Brown University (Campus IT Architect)
Shibboleth (roject Manager.)
Article - Shibboleth: Identity the Internet Way
Steve Carter Novell (Distinguished Engineer)  
Aldo Castañeda Suffolk University Law School (JD/MBA graduate, now preparing for the bar exam) The Laws of Digital Identity & The Story of Digital Identity
Michael Cote' Redmonk (Industry Analyst) People over Process
Andy Dale ooTao (Founder & President) The Tao of XDI
Bavo De Ridder Ascure (IAM Competence Center Leader) Ruminations on Identity
bavoderidder.com
Mark Diodati Burton Group (Analyst)  
Mark Dixon Sun Microsystems (Identity Practice Lead) Discovering Identity
Reed Drummond Cordance (Founder and CTO) Equals Drummond
Andre Durand Ping Identity Corporation (Founder & CEO)
Digital ID World (Founder & Co-chair)
Thoughts on Digital Identity, Federation & Life
Johannes Ernst Netmesh (Founder & CEO) Johannes Ernst Blog
Matt Flynn MaXware (Systems/Sales Engineer) Matt Flynn's Identity Management Blog
Sara Gates Sun Microsystems (VP Identity Management) From Here to Identity
Gerry Gebel Burton Group (Senior Analyst)  
Jonathan Gershater Sun Microsystems (Identity Architect) Jonathan Gershater's blog
James Governor Redmonk (Founder and Principal Analyst) RedMonk Briefings, Announcements, Events, and Other News of Interest
Michael Graves VeriSign Information Services (CTO) Infrablog
Timothy Grayson Canada Post (Manager, Strategic eBusiness Innovations) Recursive Progress
Victor Grey 2idi Corporation (Co-founder, President)
Living Directory (Developer and code architect)
CustomDynamic.net (Principal)
 
Derrick Harcey Sun Microsystems (Sales Engineer) Harcey's Identity
Dick Hardt Sxip Identity (Founder & CEO) Sxip Identity
Jeff Hodges NeuStar, Inc. (Senior Architect - Digital Identity) IdentityMeme.org
Kaliya Hamlin Planetwork (Network Director)
Integrative Activism (Co-founder, Co-director)
Identity Woman
Shekhar Jha Identity Consultant Identity and Access Management
Mike Jones Microsoft (Director of Distributed Systems Customer Strategy and Evangelism)  
Kevin Kampman Burton Group (Practice Manager and Senior Consultant)  
Dave Kearns Network World (Columnist) The Virtual Quill
Network World - Identity Management Newsletter
Diana Kelley Burton Group Senior Analyst  
John Kemp Nokia (Senior Technical Architect) Applied Life
EE Kim Blue Oxen Associates (Founder and Executive Director)
EEK Speaks
Fen Labalme Broadcatch Technologies (Founder and Chief Architect)
2idi Corporation (Co-founder, CTO and chief architect)
OpenPrivacy.org (Co-founder)
CivicActions (Lead Technology Consultant)
Fen's Stream of Consciousness
Hubert Le Van Gong Sun Microsystems (Federated Identity Architect) C'est la vie !
Eric Leach Sun Microsystems (Product Manager, Access Management and Federation) See Eric Write
Scott Lemon Agilix Labs (Technical Evangelist)
HumanXtensions (President/Consultant)
80211.net (Founder/General Partner)
Free Identity
Digital Identity Management
Jamie Lewis Burton Group (CEO & Research Chair) Opinions from Burton Group's CEO and Research Chair
Miriam Lips University of Oxford (Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute)
Tilburg University (Associate Professor)
On the Identity Trail
Ludo Sun Microsystems Ludo's sketches
Paul Madsen NTT (Identity Management Researcher) ConnectID
Anne Thomas Manes Burton Group (Vice President and Research Director)  
Eve Maler Sun Microsystems (Technology Director) Pushing String
Mark MacAuley Trusted Network Technologies (Sales) IdentityStuff
KnowIdentity
James McGovern   Enterprise Architecture: Thought Leadership
Scott McNealy Sun Microsystems (Chairman)  
John Merrells Parthenon Computing (Chairman)
Sxip (CTO)
johnmerrells
Masood Mortazavi Sun Microsystems (Senior Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager) On The Margins
Chuck Mortimore Rearden Commerce (Director of Product Management) xmldap
Anthony Nadalin IBM Software Group (Chief Security Architect)  
Nick Nikols Burton Group (Senior Analyst)  
Eric Norlin Digital ID World (Senior Editor) Digital ID World
Mike Neuenschwander Burton Group (Vice President and Research Director)  
Dale Olds Novell (Distinguished Engineer)  
Sean O'Neil Sun Microsystems (Practice Lead and Identity Architect) Identity Crisis
P.T. Ong   Random Thoughts on Digital Identity
John Panzer AOL (Technical Manager for Web Based Products) Abstractioneer
Dave Passmore Burton Group Research Director  
Greg Papadopoulos Sun Microsystems (CTO and EVP of Research and Development) Greg Matter
Pat Patterson Sun Microsystems (Federation Architect) SuperPatterns
Rohan Pinto Sun Microsystems A Twisted World
RohanPinto.com
Rakesh Radhakrishnan Sun Microsystems (Sr. Client Solutions Architect) Identity Centric Architecture
Prakash Ramamurthy Oracle (VP, Security and Identity Products)  
Luke Razzell   weaverluke
i-together
Archie Reed Hewlett Packard Archie Reed's Secure Identity Management Blog
Lori Rowland Burton Group (Analyst)  
Pete Rowley Red Hat (Principal Engineer) OpenRowley
Pushpa Sathish Dotmarketer Identity Theft Spy
Don Schmidt Microsoft (Senior Program Manager in the Identity and Access Management Team)  
Bruce Schneier Counterpane Internet Security (Founder & CTO) Schneier on Security
Jonathan Schwartz Sun Microsystems (CEO) Jonathan's Blog
Mark Scrimshire   EKIVE - Thoughts and Ideas
Doc Searls Doc Searls' IT Garage (Proprietor)
Linux Journal (Senior Editor)
Doc Searls Weblog
Radovan Semancik nLight Storm Alert
John Shewchuk Microsoft (CTO and Distinguished Engineer at Connected Systems Division)  
Terry Sigle Sun Microsystems (Sales Engineer) Sigle's Sideline
Doug Simmons Burton Group (Principal Consultant)  
Dave Smith Ping Identity (Senior Architect)
Passel Project (Founder)
Passel
Cindy Sterling BMC Software (Director, Identity Management)  
Paul Trevithick Parity Communications (CEO)
SocialPhysics.org (Co-creator)
Higgins Trust Framework project (Project Lead)
IdentityGang.org (Co-creator)
 
Mark Wahl Informed Control (Founder and President)
ldap.com (Founder)
Commentary by Mark Wahl
Carl's Spam
Robin Wilton Sun Microsystems (Corporate Architect, CTO Office) Esoterica
Phil Windley Brigham Young University (Associate Professor of Computer Science)
IT Conversations (Executive Producer)
Phil Windley's Technometria
Jim Yang Identyx (Founder & CTO) Identity Utopia