A Digital Identity Digest
Heather Flanagan
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S2E23 Identity Discovery Is More Than Finding the Login Button
“In the first post in this series, I framed discovery as a broader systems problem.” The challenge is not simply that search engines need to be better. Search is useful for public, indexed…
S2E22 The Discovery Problem Is Bigger Than Search
Heather explores why discovery is a much broader challenge than search, especially in digital identity, information management, and emerging AI ecosystems. Drawing on recent discussions and research,…
S2E16 Appeals Are Not Failures
Heather explores why appeals and formal objections are not failures in Internet standards development. This episode examines how consensus-based organizations like the W3C and IETF handle serious…
S2E18 Identity Is Not the Product
Learn why many organizations struggle to prioritize digital identity, even when identity systems are critical to security, trust, and operations. This episode explores the growing gap between…
S2E19 Wallets and Credentials Are Here. Maturity Is Not.
Discover how digital identity wallets and verifiable credentials are moving from theory into real-world infrastructure, even as standards and implementation models remain unsettled. This episode…
S2E18 Identity Systems Don’t Make Decisions
Heather examines why identity systems do not actually make decisions on their own, and how enterprise security outcomes emerge from fragmented, distributed processes. By unpacking how identity, risk,…
S2E17 What the AI Vendor Landscape Reveals About Fragmented Identity Systems
Heather explores how the AI vendor landscape reveals deeper challenges in fragmented identity systems and enterprise security architecture. By examining how tools function across identity, signals,…
S2E13 My Talk Was Accepted — Now What? A Practical Guide for Conference Speakers
Heather explores what to do after a conference talk is accepted, from reading the speaker agreement to planning travel, using the slide template, and choosing a clear presentation approach. She also…
S2E15 Age Assurance on the Internet: Identity, Privacy, and the Limits of Verification
This episode explores age assurance on the internet, where digital identity, privacy, and policy collide. Heather explains why age verification, age estimation, and age assurance are not the same,…
S2E14 When AI Agents Start Shopping: The Emerging Architecture of Agentic Commerce
Heather Flanagan explores how AI agents are moving from browsing the web to buying on behalf of users, and what that shift means for online payments, identity, and digital trust. The episode examines…
S2E13 AI Browsers and the Web User Agent: What Might Need to Change?
Heather Flanagan explores how AI-enabled browsers challenge the traditional definition of web user agents and what this means for digital identity, web architecture, and standards. As browsers evolve…
S2E12 When Browsers Start Acting for You: AI Browsers and the Definition of a Web User Agent
Heather Flanagan explores how AI browsers are reshaping the definition of a web user agent, challenging long-standing web architecture principles around user control, consent, and interaction. As…
S2E11 Making Sense of ISO, IEC, and the Standards Maze
Heather Flanagan explores the complex world of ISO and IEC standards and why these global organizations play a critical role in digital identity infrastructure. From national body participation…
S2E10 How NOT to Get Your Conference Submission Binned
Heather Flanagan explores why conference submissions succeed and why many proposals get rejected during call for proposals review. As a content chair, she shares what reviewers look for in an…
S2E9 Designing Digital Wallets for Reality: Where Selective Disclosure and ZKPs Fit
Heather Flanagan explores how digital identity wallets are shifting from experimental concepts into real infrastructure, as selective disclosure and zero knowledge proofs move from theory into…
S2E8 What Makes a Successful Standard?
In this episode, Heather Flanagan examines what truly defines a successful standard in digital identity. While adoption is often treated as the primary measure of success, she explores why that…
S2E7 Understanding the FIDO Alliance’s Standards and Working Groups
Heather Flanagan explores why the FIDO Alliance can feel difficult to follow from the outside, and why that silence is often misunderstood. This episode examines how FIDO’s approach to standards…
S2E6 Contributor Skills: How Standards Are Created
Heather Flanagan explores what it really takes to be an effective contributor in standards development and digital identity work. Moving beyond visible roles like working group chairs, the discussion…
S2E5 Internet Shutdowns and the Reality of a Fragmented Internet
Heather Flanagan examines internet fragmentation through the lens of modern internet shutdowns. Using recent, well-documented cases, she explains how connectivity is selectively constrained and why…
S2E4 Inside the OpenID DCP Working Group: Issuance, Presentation, and Reality
Discover how the OpenID Foundation’s Digital Credentials Protocols Working Group is shaping real-world digital credential issuance and presentation. Learn why standards decisions around…
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