YAF? (“Yet Another Foundation?”) Some in the identity community have had that reaction to the announcement of the Information Card Foundation (ICF) today at the start of the Burton Catalyst conference in San Diego. As one of two members of the ICF board who also serve on the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) board (Mike Jones is the [...]

One of the reasons behind launching SignOn.com was to compare and contrast different identity protocols. There are things that you can learn by reading the specs. And then there are things that you can learn by deploying/implementing the specs. We have had support for OpenID and Information Cards for a long time. With the latest release, [...]

The view from Europe: for each category, three outstanding projects and innovations were nominated as finalists.

| View | Upload your own Slideshare doesn’t handle animation very well. So…here is a run down on the last demo. In addition to inter-operating with other participants, I demoed login to Google Apps, using a server from Ping, CardSpace from Microsoft and an Information Card from Sun. In terms of platform, Sun’s servers were [...]

I’ll be at RSA Conference next week participating in the following events. Concordia What: The current goal is to demonstrate that SAML, WS-Fed and Information cards can co-exist and some of use cases where it makes sense. For instance, if you already have a federation setup (using SAML or WS-Fed), you can leverage Information Cards as [...]

Stefan and his colleagues Christian Paquin and Greg Thompson have joined the Identity and Access Group at Microsoft

OpenID provides convenience and power but suffers the problem of all the Single Sign On technologies - the more it succeeds, the more dramatically phishable it will become.

Holiday policies to be standardized

Again we see that the identity metasystem spans a whole series of requirements, use cases and behaviors

This session was delivered by Ian Bailey (Director of Application Architecture, Office of the CIO, Provence of British Columbia, Canada) at Digital ID World in San Francisco. A compelling session in its own right, it was also the coming out party for the BC Identity Management Architecture Project. The provincial government leadership has taken a bold step to provide better [...]