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 models...
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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...
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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 production. Drawing on...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 shutdowns are no longer...
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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 interoperability, credential formats, and web-based flows...
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The AI System That Never Was
Learn why the idea of an “AI system” is quietly breaking down under modern AI governance and deployment realities. Heather Flanagan examines how agentic workflows, standards debates, and policy...
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A Field Guide to Digital Identity Standards Bodies
In this episode, Heather Flanagan offers a practical field guide to digital identity standards, explaining how organizations like the OpenID Foundation, W3C, IETF, and FIDO Alliance shape specifications, drafts,...
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Process, Standards, and the AI Rogue Wave: Notes from Gartner IAM
Heather Flanagan reflects on Gartner IAM and what it reveals about digital identity decision-making, identity access management priorities, and enterprise buying behavior. The conversation explores how process, not product,...
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ICYMI 2025: What You All Read the Most This Year
In this episode, Heather Flanagan looks back at the most read Digital Identity Digest posts of 2025, exploring what resonated across digital identity, governance, credentials, and AI. The recap...
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