Field Guide

Individual Contract Wrappers

Individual Contract Wrappers When providing information to a service, the requester also provides terms for how that information can be used.  Service providers agree to honor those terms in exchange for access to the data, and compliance is enforced through contract law. Terms might include an expiration date, limits on whether the data can be […]

The Sole Source

This article is part of the PDEC Field Guide to Internet Trust Models. A Sole Source is an organization that acts as identity provider (IdP) and relying party (RP) for itself. This organization issues all identities that it recognizes, and only trusts identities that it has issued. An organization like this does not federate identities at all. […]

Internet Trust, Identity, and Making Sausage

One of the projects that Kaliya and I are working on is an update to our paper, “A Field Guide to Internet Trust Models“. The original was well received (we even won an award), and readers offered good feedback. In keeping with that spirit of community, we decided to publish the updates here as we […]