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Nico Popp Outlines Government OpenID Adoption
Nico Popp, over at VeriSign, has an interesting post outlining how he thinks the US federal government will adopt OpenID: … there is a clear view that the deployment of low level assurance identities is only a critical first step, not an end in itself. With the initial OpenID pilot, the administration is seeking to…
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Burton Group: Evaluate Identity Services Now
Bob Blakley at the Burton Group just published a report on “The Business of Identity Services”. He focuses on services at the identity provider side and outlines possible identity services businesses on the identity provider side in some detail. It seems he is more optimistic about new identity services business opportunities than I am at…
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Ben Laurie: “Why Privacy Will Always Lose”
Deducted meticulously, and hard to disagree with, he finds: The popularity of a social networking site will be in inverse proportion to the goodness of its privacy controls. Time to be depressed, or time to get on with the show?
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Burton Group: “SOA Is Dead”
Given that Burton’s clients are mostly enterprises, I wonder how this will end. One of the most prominent headline-grabbers of the upcoming Catalyst conference is an entire track whose pitch reads as follows: Track: SOA Is Dead; Long Live Services Many service oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives have stalled or failed. And prospects for SOA look…
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“Equal Access Principle”
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…