Certainly if the world goes according to Parity, which has taken Microsoft’s vision of cards for identity a large number of really interesting steps further.
What OpenID (and the underlying Yadis) fundamentally give us are: Globally unique identifiers (today URLs and XRIs, but there’s no technical reason those couldn’t also be e-mail addresses, barcodes or ISBN numbers) A mechanism for services discovery (via Yadis XRDS, and, in very limited form, via the OpenID HTML tags). Everything else, such as authentication, [...]
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Johannes Ernst on December 6th, 2007
Oracle’s Nishant Kaushik writes: So does user-centricity have a place in the enterprise? I’m not sure. Opening up the enterprise to external identity providers may force the adoption of user-centric technologies, but it won’t mean that once I am "in" the enterprise and have given them access to some data, I can still control how [...]
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Couldn’t resist this play of words (Latin: concordia: harmony, agreement), but here is a picture from the recent OSIS Steering Committee meeting. To the left, Dale Olds of Novell, OSIS Chair, and to the right Mike Jones, Microsoft. The marked object is a white board eraser. Enjoy! ;-)
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Glad you think so, Matt. [On the question of a useful scenario for OpenID in the enterprise] I think Pam misunderstands something about user-centric and the enterprise, however: Of course, the technologies built to support user-centric identity (like OpenID and CardSpace) can be used in many different ways, many of which aren’t user-centric at all. [...]
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