Sxore is disappointing not in itself, but mainly because it comes from Sxip, the very company whose mantra is “user-centric identity, decentralized identity”. We are looking forward to take a look at the very promising and upcoming release of Sxip 2.0, but with Sxore they missed the opportunity to test Identity 2.0 against a real-world problem.

I’m afraid we’ve been involved in a much larger topic than the one we intended to address.

Often I struggle to find the right words for my posts … just to discover that someone else already wrote with a brilliant and remarkable style about the very same stuff that I’m mumbling about.

It’s the case of my previous post “Identity is not reputation” confronted with James Kobielus post “imho identity privacy reputation” (November 2005).

Our original proposal was trying to convince identity providers to add reputation management as a built-in application within their systems. That was wrong. As Phil Windley said in a recent post

[…] reputation is computed from identity and transactional data.

Our recent proposal (a schema for handling the reputation of people posting comments to blogs) was based on the assumption that reputation management should be tightly coupled with identity management.

UPDATE - We received lots of brilliant feedbacks about our proposal. A revised version is now available [here][98] with more “philosophical” background [here][99].

In my [previous post][1] I mentioned a [recent article from Dion Hinchcliffe] [2] that is based on the following assumption: anonymity is extremely difficult to handle (look at what happened with the