WIMSE is Where Workload Identity is Getting Interesting
Learn why workload identity is becoming increasingly important as cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and AI agents interact across organizational boundaries. The WIMSE working group at the IETF is developing...
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W3C, IETF, and the Emerging Shape of AI Standards
Heather examines the growing landscape of AI standards at the W3C and IETF, exploring how different groups address content disclosure, AI content preferences, automated client authentication, agent capabilities, and...
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Two Approaches to AI Agent Discovery
Heather explores two emerging approaches to AI agent discovery: the W3C AI Agent Protocol Community Group and the proposed IETF Discovery of Agents with Names (DAWN) Working Group. She...
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OAuth Is Asking What Authorization Needs to Become
Learn why OAuth is being pushed to reconsider what authorization needs to become as software grows more autonomous. Heather examines recent OAuth working group discussions around proof of possession,...
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What It’s Actually Like to Serve on the W3C TAG
Heather explores what it’s actually like to serve on the W3C Technical Architecture Group, from reviewing emerging web technologies to navigating architectural questions, consensus, and unfamiliar areas of the...
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The Verifier Has an Interoperability Problem Too
In this episode, Heather examines the gap between technical interoperability and real-world digital identity deployment. Wallets and verifiable credentials may successfully exchange information, but relying parties must navigate different...
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Someone Still Has to Accept the Credential
Discover how digital wallets and verifiable credentials are moving from pilots into real-world adoption, while revealing a critical gap: someone still has to accept the credential. Heather examines the...
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A Field Guide to Identity Conferences: Which One Should You Attend?
Discover how identity conferences can help practitioners stay current on digital identity, emerging standards, regulation, cybersecurity, and the challenges organizations are preparing to solve. Heather examines why choosing the...
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Standards Transparency: Public Isn’t the Same as Understandable
Heather examines why making standards information public is not enough to make the work understandable. This episode explores the growing challenge of navigating specifications, document status, provenance, working group...
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Keeping Up With Standards Without Pretending You Can Keep Up
Heather explores why keeping up with standards development does not mean tracking everything. This episode looks at how a lightweight standards radar can surface emerging work across digital identity,...
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Staying Useful in a Geopolitical Internet: Reflections from IETF 126
Learn why nation state politics are increasingly shaping technical standards and the future of the Internet. Drawing on reflections from IETF 126, Heather examines how regulatory pressure, geopolitical interests,...
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Technical Standards Were Never Outside Politics
Heather explores why technical standards have never been truly separate from politics, even when they remain nonpartisan. This episode examines how choices around interoperability, privacy, security, and user needs...
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