Upon2020 (archive)
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I-dentity therefore I-card?
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.
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On Identity and Messaging
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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Sorry, Nishant: User-Centricity Definitely Applies in the Enterprise
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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Concordia in the Open-Source Identity System?
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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OpenID 2.0 Authentication and Attribute Exchange 1.0 Are Final!
This was just announced at IIW, after Sxip signed the Non-Assertion Agreement. This completes the non-asserts from all of the Open ID Foundation Board members and contributors to the specs. The newly adopted specifications can be found here. Thanks, everybody, for all your hard work to make this happen!