Inventing the Internet Without Writing Code: Heather Flanagan on Identity, Standards, and AI at Scale

Heather Flanagan joins SaviTalk to explore how identity standards are actually built, why AI is moving faster than governance, and what happens when “harmless but useless” specs get published anyway. From her time leading the RFC Series at the IETF to building IDPro’s peer-reviewed identity body of knowledge, Heather shares hard truths about consensus, vendor politics, wallet fragmentation, and the future of digital trust at AI scale.