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Rethinking Governance for Non-Human Identities", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/04/22/who-owns-the-bots-rethinking-governance-for-non-human-identities/", "published_at": "2025-04-22T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-37206e564fb1", "title": "Is Introspection a Bug or a Feature?", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/04/15/is-introspection-a-bug-or-a-feature/", "published_at": "2025-04-15T13:45:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-37206f3b8027", "title": "The Future of Open Standards: Politics, Sovereignty, and the Role of SDOs", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/04/08/the-future-of-open-standards/", "published_at": "2025-04-08T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-37206fb55508", "title": "The Boundaries Between Standards and Policy: AI Training as a Case Study", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/04/01/standards-and-policy/", "published_at": "2025-04-01T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-37206fcf0041", "title": "Why Enterprises Should Care About Digital Credentials (Even If It’s Complicated)", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/03/25/digital-credentials-in-the-enterprise/", "published_at": "2025-03-25T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-3720701c8da4", "title": "Digital Credentials vs. Traditional Federation: What’s the Difference?", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/03/18/dc-vs-federation/", "published_at": "2025-03-18T15:21:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-37207110758e", "title": "Standards vs. Reality: The Long Tail of Legacy Systems", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/03/11/standards-versus-reality/", "published_at": "2025-03-11T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-37207191e6e7", "title": "Shared Signals: Who Pays the Price for Stronger Identity?", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/03/04/shared-signals-and-ciam/", "published_at": "2025-03-04T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-372072209841", "title": "What AI Agents Can Teach Us About Fraud in Consumer Identity", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/02/25/ai-and-ciam/", "published_at": "2025-02-25T13:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-3720730aa9cd", "title": "Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Privacy, Innovation, and Equity", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/02/18/zero-knowledge-proofs/", "published_at": "2025-02-18T13:38:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-3720730cff15", "title": "Agentic AI and Authentication: Exploring Some Unanswered Questions", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/02/11/agentic-ai-and-authentication/", "published_at": "2025-02-11T12:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-37207372d858", "title": "Securing the Software Supply Chain: How SCITT, SPIFFE, and WIMSE Work Together", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/02/03/securing-the-software-supply-chain/", "published_at": "2025-02-03T13:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-3720746f3cc9", "title": "Are You Human? A Dive Into the Proof of Personhood Debate", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/01/27/are-you-human-a-dive-into-the-proof-of-personhood-debate/", "published_at": "2025-01-27T13:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-3720756882df", "title": "Digital Credentials That Can Be Verified: A Lesson in Terminology", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/01/20/digital-credentials-that-can-be-verified-a-lesson-in-terminology/", "published_at": "2025-01-20T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-372075a5b9ef", "title": "Understanding NHIs: Key Differences Between Human and Non-Human Identities", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2025/01/13/understanding-nhis-key-differences-between-human-and-non-human-identities/", "published_at": "2025-01-13T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-3720769efbf8", "title": "Unlock the Secrets of OAuth 2.0 Tokens (and Have Fun Doing It!)", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2024/12/19/oauth-2-0-tokens/", "published_at": "2024-12-19T20:17:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-3720776bd58f", "title": "The Importance of Early Engagement in Standards", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2024/12/02/early-engagement-in-standards/", "published_at": "2024-12-02T12:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-372078374e05", "title": "Every Company is an IAM Company", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2024/11/25/every-company-is-an-iam-company/", "published_at": "2024-11-25T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-37207837edf3", "title": "Rethinking Identity Management: The Role of Non-Human Identities in Academic Research", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2024/11/20/nhi-in-academia/", "published_at": "2024-11-20T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-372078ca3c3d", "title": "The Importance of Digital Identity Wallet Standards", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2024/10/21/digital-identity-wallets-standards/", "published_at": "2024-10-21T14:43:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-372079443e5b", "title": "Operationalizing Trust Frameworks: Who’s Going to Keep the Lights On?", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2024/09/29/operationalizing-trust-frameworks-whos-going-to-keep-the-lights-on/", "published_at": "2024-09-29T13:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-372079e5eb1e", "title": "The Wallets Are Coming – But Are We Ready for What’s Next?", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2024/09/20/the-wallets-are-coming-but-are-we-ready-for-whats-next/", "published_at": "2024-09-20T17:20:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-37207a149a93", "title": "From Concept to Consensus: Developing Internet Standards", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2024/09/20/more-on-standards-development/", "published_at": "2024-09-20T12:29:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-37207a79c3e1", "title": "Why FIPS 140-3 Matters for Cryptography and Digital Identity Security", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2024/09/04/fips-140-3/", "published_at": "2024-09-04T13:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e4-7805-71d6-b919-37207ad0c66b", "title": "Privacy-Enhancing Technologies: Protecting Human and Non-Human Identities", "url": "https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2024/08/29/pets/", "published_at": "2024-08-29T11:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

The Verifier Has an Interoperability Problem Too original ↗

22 Sept 2026

Someone Still Has to Accept the Credential original ↗

15 Sept 2026

A Field Guide to Identity Conferences: Which One Should You Attend?original ↗

8 Sept 2026

Standards Transparency: Public Isn’t the Same as Understandable original ↗

1 Sept 2026

Keeping Up With Standards Without Pretending You Can Keep Up original ↗

25 Aug 2026

Staying Useful in a Geopolitical Internet: Reflections from IETF 126 original ↗

18 Aug 2026

Technical Standards Were Never Outside Politics original ↗

11 Aug 2026

Take the Selfie original ↗

4 Aug 2026

How to Research a Defensible Paper Without Drowning in Sources original ↗

28 Jul 2026

The Identity Salon: Five-Year Problems, Chatham House Notes, and DNS Nonsense original ↗

21 Jul 2026

Governance Means Something. Just Not Always the Same Thing.original ↗

14 Jul 2026

When Process Stops Protecting the Work original ↗

7 Jul 2026

Choosing a Discovery Mechanism Is the Hard Part original ↗

30 Jun 2026

When Discovery Starts Taking Action original ↗

23 Jun 2026

The Digital Life We Forgot We Had original ↗

16 Jun 2026

Identity Discovery Is More Than Finding the Login Button original ↗

9 Jun 2026

The Discovery Problem Is Bigger Than Search original ↗

2 Jun 2026

Appeals Are Not Failures original ↗

26 May 2026

Identity Is Not the Product original ↗

19 May 2026

Wallets and Credentials Are Here. Maturity Is Not.original ↗

12 May 2026

Identity Systems Don’t Make Decisions original ↗

5 May 2026

What the AI Vendor Landscape Reveals About Fragmented Identity Systems original ↗

28 Apr 2026

My Talk Was Accepted — Now What? A Practical Guide for Conference Speakers original ↗

21 Apr 2026

Age Assurance on the Internet: Identity, Privacy, and the Limits of Verification original ↗

14 Apr 2026

When AI Agents Start Shopping: The Emerging Architecture of Agentic Commerce original ↗

7 Apr 2026

AI Browsers and the Web User Agent: What Might Need to Change?original ↗

31 Mar 2026

When Browsers Start Acting for You: AI Browsers and the Definition of a Web User Agent original ↗

24 Mar 2026

Making Sense of ISO, IEC, and the Standards Maze original ↗

17 Mar 2026

How NOT to Get Your Conference Submission Binned original ↗

10 Mar 2026

Designing Digital Wallets for Reality: Where Selective Disclosure and ZKPs Fit original ↗

3 Mar 2026

What Makes a Successful Standard?original ↗

24 Feb 2026

Understanding the FIDO Alliance’s Standards and Working Groups original ↗

17 Feb 2026

Contributor Skills: How Standards Are Created original ↗

10 Feb 2026

Internet Shutdowns and the Reality of a Fragmented Internet original ↗

3 Feb 2026

Inside the OpenID DCP Working Group: Issuance, Presentation, and Reality original ↗

27 Jan 2026

The AI System That Never Was original ↗

20 Jan 2026

A Field Guide to Digital Identity Standards Bodies original ↗

13 Jan 2026

Process, Standards, and the AI Rogue Wave: Notes from Gartner IAM original ↗

6 Jan 2026

2025

ICYMI 2025: What You All Read the Most This Year original ↗

30 Dec 2025

Web Payments and Digital Identity Standards Are Converging – #TIL original ↗

23 Dec 2025

Two APIs Walk Into a Browser: FedCM vs. the DC API original ↗

16 Dec 2025

What I Wish I Knew When I Started in Identity original ↗

9 Dec 2025

Robots, Humans, and the Edges of the Open Web original ↗

2 Dec 2025

Digital Identity Wallet Standards, the DC API, and Politics original ↗

25 Nov 2025

The Regulator’s Dilemma original ↗

18 Nov 2025

The Paradox of Protection original ↗

11 Nov 2025

The Infrastructure We Forgot We Built original ↗

4 Nov 2025

Can Standards Survive Trade Wars and Sovereignty Battles?original ↗

28 Oct 2025

The People Problem: How Demographics Decide the Future of the Internet original ↗

21 Oct 2025

Why Tech Supply Chains, Not Protocols, Set the Limits on AI and the Internet original ↗

14 Oct 2025

The End of the Global Internet original ↗

7 Oct 2025

Delegation and Consent: Who Actually Benefits?original ↗

30 Sept 2025

Pirates, Librarians, and Standards Development original ↗

23 Sept 2025

Who Really Pays When AI Agents Run Wild? Incentives, Identity, and the Hidden Bill original ↗

16 Sept 2025

AI Permissions vs. Human Permissions: What Really Changes?original ↗

9 Sept 2025

Roads, Robots, and Responsibility: Why Agentic AI Needs Identity Infrastructure original ↗

2 Sept 2025

Bot or Not? Why Incentives Matter More Than Identity original ↗

26 Aug 2025

Working Group Chair Skills: Standards Work Isn’t Just for Coders original ↗

19 Aug 2025

Agentic AI in the Open Standards Community: Standards Work or Just Hype?original ↗

12 Aug 2025

Not Just a Technical Problem: Why Fighting Disinformation Needs Resilient Infrastructure original ↗

5 Aug 2025

What WSIS+20 Taught Me About Digital Identity and Global Governance original ↗

29 Jul 2025

Kill the Wallet? Rethinking the Metaphors Behind Digital Identity original ↗

22 Jul 2025

Local Flavors, Global Reach: Why Digital Identity Needs Cultural Context original ↗

15 Jul 2025

When Verification Calls Home: Three Views on Privacy, Risk, and Digital Credentials original ↗

8 Jul 2025

Resilience Isn’t Free: What Standards Can (and Can’t) Prepare Us For original ↗

1 Jul 2025

Delegation in a Multi-Actor World: It’s Not Just OAuth Anymore original ↗

27 Jun 2025

Rethinking Digital Identity: What ARE Open Standards?original ↗

24 Jun 2025

The MCP Bandwagon original ↗

17 Jun 2025

Acting on Behalf of Others: Delegation, Consent, and Messy Reality original ↗

3 Jun 2025

Why Governance Decides If Decentralization Works original ↗

27 May 2025

Redefining Success: Centralization as a Feature or a Failure?original ↗

20 May 2025

The Cost of Decentralization: What Companies Need to Weigh Before They Commit original ↗

13 May 2025

Engineering Meets Economics: Shifting, Not Choosing, Between Centralized and Decentralized original ↗

7 May 2025

Trailer original ↗

5 May 2025

Web Payments and Digital Identity are Having a Moment original ↗

29 Apr 2025

Who Owns the Bots? Rethinking Governance for Non-Human Identities original ↗

22 Apr 2025

Is Introspection a Bug or a Feature?original ↗

15 Apr 2025

The Future of Open Standards: Politics, Sovereignty, and the Role of SDOs original ↗

8 Apr 2025

The Boundaries Between Standards and Policy: AI Training as a Case Study original ↗

1 Apr 2025

Why Enterprises Should Care About Digital Credentials (Even If It’s Complicated)original ↗

25 Mar 2025

Digital Credentials vs. Traditional Federation: What’s the Difference?original ↗

18 Mar 2025

Standards vs. Reality: The Long Tail of Legacy Systems original ↗

11 Mar 2025

Shared Signals: Who Pays the Price for Stronger Identity?original ↗

4 Mar 2025

What AI Agents Can Teach Us About Fraud in Consumer Identity original ↗

25 Feb 2025

Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Privacy, Innovation, and Equity original ↗

18 Feb 2025

Agentic AI and Authentication: Exploring Some Unanswered Questions original ↗

11 Feb 2025

Securing the Software Supply Chain: How SCITT, SPIFFE, and WIMSE Work Together original ↗

3 Feb 2025

Are You Human? A Dive Into the Proof of Personhood Debate original ↗

27 Jan 2025

Digital Credentials That Can Be Verified: A Lesson in Terminology original ↗

20 Jan 2025

Understanding NHIs: Key Differences Between Human and Non-Human Identities original ↗

13 Jan 2025

2024

Unlock the Secrets of OAuth 2.0 Tokens (and Have Fun Doing It!)original ↗

19 Dec 2024

The Importance of Early Engagement in Standards original ↗

2 Dec 2024

Every Company is an IAM Company original ↗

25 Nov 2024

Rethinking Identity Management: The Role of Non-Human Identities in Academic Research original ↗

20 Nov 2024

The Importance of Digital Identity Wallet Standards original ↗

21 Oct 2024

Operationalizing Trust Frameworks: Who’s Going to Keep the Lights On?original ↗

29 Sept 2024

The Wallets Are Coming – But Are We Ready for What’s Next?original ↗

20 Sept 2024

From Concept to Consensus: Developing Internet Standards original ↗

20 Sept 2024

Why FIPS 140-3 Matters for Cryptography and Digital Identity Security original ↗

4 Sept 2024

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies: Protecting Human and Non-Human Identities original ↗

29 Aug 2024