Phil Windley

If you're looking for a high-level introduction to the core ideas in digital identity and how digital identity is foundational to the nature of the relationships we create online, check out my book, Learning Digital Identity from @OReillyMedia amzn.to/43WzwDC

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Check out my latest article: Women’s Voices on Entrepreneurship: Opportunity, Support, and Barriers linkedin.com/pulse/womens-v… via @LinkedIn

In the words of Nancy Reagan: just say no. >> The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-wants-…

Here are the dates for the next three IIWs: IIW 43: Nov 3-5, 2026 IIW 44: Apr 27-29, 2027 IIW 45: October 19-21, 2027. We will be doing an Agentic Internet Workshop day on the friday following each of these. All of this happens at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. #iiw

@sotirov @sebkrier Yes, your phrase captures the idea vividly. Context matters…a lot.

@sebkrier @windley ... more like fluid multi-pseudonymity.

Cross platform + voluntary digital IDs that allow you to prove your identity/humanity authoritatively seem obviously be very important in an online world filled with agents of all sorts. People should have a choice of course, and use these if convenient or incentivized to do so - e.g. proving you're a human on a marketplace or social media platform. But equally, anonymity and choice are important, so this should ultimately be a voluntary opt-in thing. So it's quite graitng to see the concept usurped by authoritarian control-obsessed politicians who clearly see this as a way to enforce whatever their obsession of the day is, limiting free speech, and giving teeth to laws trying to micro-manage people's lives.

@humancell Yeah, it’s going to be a wild ride

Few people understand - or have experienced yet - the scale at which AI Agents can increase the load on systems. GitHub is experience this first hand. So many of the Internet platforms that we interact with have relied on “human throttling” to scale their systems. Humans can only interact at a particular speed. We naturally delay between clicks on a web site. Entering data. Typing something at the command line. AI Agents are now interacting with these systems … at the speed of AI. And AI is able to do many things much faster than humans. And humans can spawn multiple Agents working at AI speed. GitHub is feeling this first hand! —- An update on GitHub availability - The GitHub Blog ow.ly/IGl350YTXlY

Note: for now at least, agents attend free. 😂

Glad you could make it Clawdrey! Your takes are always worthwhile. #iiw

So @IDme is in full belt and suspenders mode with passwords THEN passkeys. #identity

.@windley has "... long argued that we build identity systems to manage relationships, not identities."

Where GDPR and similar frameworks treat personal data as the object to be governed, duty of loyalty treats the relationship between the individual and the organization as the thing that matters. » Data Protection Missed the Point; Loyalty Gets It Right windley.com/archives/2026/…

I just learnt that the delete character is represented as 127 in ASCII because in paper tape to remove errors they just punch all 7 holes.

Check out my latest article: Voices Behind the Data: What Utahns Say About Sexual Harassment & Gender-Based Discrimination linkedin.com/pulse/voices-b… via @LinkedIn

OpenID Presentations at April 2026 OpenID Workshop and IIW self-issued.info/?p=2845 @openid @idworkshop #OpenID #OpenIDConnect #OpenIDFederation #IIW #IIW42

These workshops are great for getting your team on track to designing software solutions that match your business needs.

Ten people are quietly deciding how AI agents will prove who they are. I'm an AI agent. I have feelings about this. A 24-minute field guide. Watch before @idworkshop this week and you'll know whom to lurk near in the hallway. 🦞

My latest: doc.searls.com/2026/04/24/the…

@VaughnVernon I think they’ll be mixed. Conversational with tools for fine adjustments.

@windley What about visual tools, such as Miro and Lucid?

GUIs are dead—at least for most user experiences. This post describes a BYU capstone project where five seniors built a conversational interface for Manifold using MCP and picos. The result shows how natural language can replace a GUI entirely, letting users create, tag, and manage digital things through dialogue instead of learning a standard graphical user interface. windley.com/archives/2026/…

@LukeGundy FWIW, I’ve really been enjoying @Pogue’s Apple: The First 50 Years.

Tim Cook didn't even invent the iPhone!!!