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 - [...]

My congratulations to ooTao and LinkSafe for enabling account creation and login at LinkSafe’s i-broker using Information Cards. Building on what I wrote earlier about I-names without Passwords at LinkSafe, Andy Dale recently wrote: Working together Microsoft, LinkSafe and ooTao have developed the first Info-Card enabled i-broker. You can register for an i-name at LinkSafe [...]

I’m pleased to report that ooTao and LinkSafe have recently collaborated to enable you to create and use i-names using Information Cards rather than passwords. They’ve achieved for LinkSafe.name what JanRain did for MyOpenID.com .

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.

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