Microsoft has released a beta of its most important developer tool to date

Brett McDowell, executive director of Liberty Alliance, is one of the founding members.

There is a lot of business value in these concepts. And they will affect the way businesses cooperate, because they are much easier to implement and use than many other approaches.

| 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 [...]

Two important identity interoperability demonstrations will occur at RSA two weeks from now: the OSIS User-Centric Identity Interop and the Concordia Multi-Protocol Federation Interop. During both you’ll see different projects and vendors publicly showing their identity software working together. But what you won’t see at the conference is what’s happening right now [...]

Andy Dale recently posted a great entry titled “ Adopting Evolution ” in which he asked the question: Why has OpenID grabbed so much popularity while SAML, a much more mature, academically respected, ‘robust’ specification has been largely ignored by the cutting edge web 2.0 community? I’ll encourage you to read his post for his insightful answer. His question reminded me of another answer to the same question that I gave during the recent Concordia meeting at DIDW: OpenID solves the “Home Realm