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 [...]

Sean Nolan explains his approach to user-centric identity

Mike (one of those who need no sleep) blogged about Fun Communication's openid idtheft site and I encourage you to read Mike's post and try your personal idtheft immediately. Back here?! Well, you knew all this already, didn't you? But seeing it in action is another thing, I guess. So where does this lead us? Remember the " openid dogfight " from September 2007? I too think that we need a spectrum of solutions. I agree that openid is for when an RP has "trivial" security requirements, but I think

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.

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 [...]

Trust (using the word here in a broad, abstract way) has been one of the strongest reason for the OpenID adoption. The spec does not require for OPs and RPs to get together and discuss key exchange, business value, liability issues, attribute data and so forth. OPs and RPs work independently of each other and [...]

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.

After a long pause you can hear the voice of the master of the identity metasystem again here . Kim Cameron explains why the success of openid leads to the success of CardSpace information cards. Some sometimes forget that there are "alternative operating systems identity selectors". Examples are of course the openinfocard identity selector or the higgins based identity seletor digitalme .

1) Microsoft Cardspace builds on the idea of claims . A “digital identity” is a set of claims made by one party about another party 2) Antarctica is owned by no country, but seven have made territorial claims over different (sometimes overlapping) pie-shaped sectors. 3) Argentina bases its claim in part on the Treaty of Tordesillas 4) The Treaty of Tordesillas was the 15th Century agreement between Portugal and Spain that divided up the globe into two domains - everything west of a mid-Atlantic meridian