In May 2005, when I wrote the whitepaper “Microsoft’s Vision for an Identity Metasystem”, these sentences were aspirational: Microsoft’s implementation will be fully interoperable via WS-* protocols with other identity selector implementations, with other relying party implementations, and with other identity provider implementations. Non-Microsoft applications will have the same ability to use "InfoCard" to manage their identities [...]

33 Companies… 24 Projects… 57 Participants working together to build an interoperable user-centric identity layer for the Internet! Come join us! Tuesday and Wednesday, April 8 and 9 at RSA 2008, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California Location: Mezzanine Level Room 220 Interactive Working Sessions: Tuesday and Wednesday, 11am - 4pm Demonstrations: Tuesday and Wednesday, 4pm - 6pm Reception: Wednesday, 4pm - [...]

I’d like to extend congratulations to my colleagues from the Higgins Project for their Higgins 1.0 release today. This is a significant milestone in the development and deployment of interoperable identity software that lets people use their Information Cards on any platform or system. This release includes a broad range of implementations, including Identity Selectors [...]

Last night OSIS and the Burton Group held the third in a series of user-centric identity Interop events where companies and projects building user-centric identity software components came together and tested the interoperation of their software together. Following on the Interops at IIW in May and Catalyst in June , the participants continued their joint work of ensuring that the identity software we’re all building works great together.