Johannes Ernst on February 24th, 2009

Eran Hammer-Lahav blogs about an important principle behind OpenID, Yadis, OAuth and a number of related technologies that he calls the "Equal Access Principle". He says the requirements are: Support large and small providers. Any solution must work for a small hosted website as well as the world largest portal. It must be flexible enough [...]

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Johannes Ernst on February 19th, 2009

For some years now, I’ve heard Kim Cameron and others at Microsoft talk about "how claims will change everything" in so many different presentations, and to be frank, I didn’t get it. Neither the claims, nor the change or the everything part. So this week, I came across the Microsoft Identity Software and Services Roadmap [...]

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A technology works in theory if you have a piece of software and you can make it do what you want it to do for the purposes of demonstrating it and letting others try it out. It works in practice if people who utterly don’t care about your technology successfully use it because it makes [...]

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