Phil Windley
- Co-founder of the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW)
- Author of Learning Digital Identity (O'Reilly)
- Former CIO of the State of Utah
Bio
Phil Windley is an author, researcher, and co-founder of the Internet Identity Workshop. His book Learning Digital Identity is a widely used reference, and his work on decentralized identity, autonomic identifiers, and identity architecture has influenced both standards and practice. He previously served as CIO of the State of Utah.
Profile built from public IIW and personal-site records.
Where their work shows up
Windley's writing on decentralized identity and autonomic identifiers is among the clearest available on why holder-mediated presentation differs from federation, and why removing the issuer from the moment of presentation matters. See decentralized identifiers and DID methods compared.
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