Finally, this evening our Light-Weight Identity (LID) website went on-line. LID is our deceptively simple, new take on digital identity management in the broader sense, supporting things like address book management as well as single-sign-on (SSO) with interesting implications for many things I will blog about over some period of time.

It builds on HTTP, HTML, XML, XPath and that's about it. It is entirely decentralized and requires as little as a single Perl file to run on the server (and nothing to run on the client). We were amazed that nobody seems to have build something similar yet, so we did ... let us know what you think. Its web site is at lid.netmesh.org.

Also, this site is now LID-enabled (as you can see at the new LID logo in the upper-right corner of this page), which means that you can find out up-to-date information about its owner (me) in HTML, XML and other formats, either through low-level queries like the ones documented at

http://netmesh.info/jernst?help=help

(good, you noticed, that's this URL with an additional parameter...)

... or the more user-friendly LID query page here.