About Us
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This page explains who is doing what in the community and how they can be contacted if you need more information than is available on this wiki. (Listed alphabetically by last name.)
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[edit] Les Chasen
Les is a SR. Manager responsible for @neustar's DNS registry systems (.BIZ, .US, .KIDS.US, .CN, .TW, .TRAVEL, .4U.COM), Wireless DNC, Telecom Disaster Recovery as well as the i-names registry. His primary XRI focus includes:
- Operations of the Global Registry Service (GRS) which includes:
- Editor on the XRI Technical Committee
- Member of the XDI Technical Committee
- and most importantly XRI evangelism
[edit] Steve Churchill
CTO at ooTao, Steve is a principal developer of ooTao's myXDI(R) Service and EZIBroker(R), and an editor of the XRI Resoution Specification. See his article on the XRI Polygraph.
Steve can be reached via =steven.churchill
[edit] Andy Dale
Andy is CEO of ooTao, a leader in the development of the XDI data sharing protocol at OASIS, which ooTao is implementing in their myXDI(R) Service. He blogs at The TAO of XDI and can be reached at =andy.dale.
[edit] Chris Drake
Operates the accredited i-Broker 1id.com. If you have questions that you would like to pose to an i-Broker, Chris (or one of his staff) is happy to reply. Write to bizdev@1id.com or visit our contact page.
[edit] Owen Davis
Owen is a co-founder of LinkSafe.name and a director of XDI.org. He can be reached at =owen
In addition to i-name registration LinksSafe offers free community i-names and provides hosted community registries with each i-name (including a generic brandable login page for your community registry).
[edit] Peter Davis
Peter is a long-time XRI specifications editor at OASIS. He also is the editor of the [iSSO] specification, which are additional profiles of "SSTCs SAML"
He is a Distiguished Member of the Technical Staff at NeuStar.
[edit] Victor Grey
Victor co-founded 2idi and can be reached at =victor.grey.
He is working on an open-source community i-names server in Ruby on Rails.
[edit] Kaliya Hamlin
A.k.a Identity Woman coming from a civilian (non-technical) background Kaliya acquired the identity "bug" in the Planetwork Community in 2002/3. She saw it as an essential tool for making civil society more effective. She likes i-names because she thinks they are human friendly. She is also a big fan of interoperability and working together with related efforts. The Internet Identity Workshop that she produces with Phil Windley and Doc Searls is the main community meeting space and is the place where the Yadis/OpenID2 convergence emerged.
[edit] Fen Labalme
Fen co-founded 2idi and can be reached at =fen.
Two years ago I took a break from working on identity due to my desire to be able to support a family. I'm working now at CivicActions providing professional online services for non-profits, NGOs and progressive companies. We have a need for grassroots identity - let's collaborate!
[edit] Laurie Rae
[edit] Drummond Reed
Drummond is VP Infrastructure at Parity, technical advisor to Cordance, co-chair of the XRI and XDI TCs at OASIS, secretary of XDI.org, a board member of OpenXRI.org, and a steward of Identity Commons. His focus is on the following areas:
- OASIS XRI and XDI specification development
- XDI.org GRS and ISS specification development
- XDI.org-Accredited I-Broker technical and business development
- Integration of XRI and XDI with other Internet identity technologies such as OpenID, SAML, CardSpace, and Higgins
- Development and evangelism of new identity-enabled services and applications such as Equals, imail, and ishare
Drummond can be reached via his i-name contact page =drummond.reed, or his Skype chat link =drummond.reed/skype/chat. Drummond blogs at http://equalsdrummond.name (naturally).
[edit] Ivor Sequeira
Director of Strategic Relations, NeuStar
[edit] William Tan
Senior Software Engineer, NeuStar
Wil developed the GRS authority resolution server and the http://xri.net proxy. He is also one of the XRI resolution editors, and developer for FoXRI and OpenXRI.
[edit] Trung Tran
Trung Tran is a Senior Systems Engineering working at NeuStar. He is in charge of the business engine for the Global Registry Service.
[edit] Gabe Wachob
Gabe is CTO at Amsoft and Equals and co-chair of the XRI TC. He began work on XRI while at Visa. His focus is on the following areas:
- OASIS XRI specification development
- Developing IPR policies for open standards efforts that allow both open source community members and corporate participants to develop, use, and implement open identity standards
- Development and evangelism of new identity-enabled services and applications such as Equals, imail, and ishare
Gabe can be reached via his i-name contact page =gmw, on freenode IRC GabeW on ##identity and GabeW on #openid. Gabe blogs at http://blog.wachob.com You can even email him at this old fashioned email address.
[edit] Markus Sabadello
Markus is involved with the development of OpenXRI and focuses especially on its server component. He also operates the OpenXRI based site @freeXRI and occasionally even tries to mess with the OASIS XRI specifications.
[edit] Ferran Cabrer i Vilagut
The most recent collaborator from catalonia. Ferran is producing a project [gLOCALid.org] for merging iNames with semantic micro-profiles and GIS data. The promotion of .CAT domains is adressed to facilitate a trans-frontiers Digital Catalonia Identificators [NID.CAT].
