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

I found the samples very clear, and uncluttered with a lot of "sample decoration"

Some days ago I went to a kiosk to buy some ice cream for me and my family. I ordered four cones with one scoop of chocolate ice cream each. When I received the first cone I found a huge pile of chocolate ice cream on the cone. I reminded the seller that I had ordered only one scoop and got the answer that this mountain of at least five scoops was _one_ scoop. Hm. The relying party now has a problem. Its subsystems (kids) already saw the offered claims so there is now no way to plainly reject the

Microsoft recently created a Consumer Website for CardSpace to educate end-users about Windows CardSpace and Information Cards. This complements the developer-focused information at the MSDN CardSpace site and the CardSpace Community Site. No, it’s not the kind of content targeted at regular readers of this blog – especially the short video – but then, that’s [...]

Kim Cameron and I recorded a podcast on digital identity for MySuccessGateway this week at the invitation of Jim Peake of SpeechRep Consulting. Jim was a gracious, informed, and enthusiastic host during our conversation, which covered a wide range of digital identity topics including identity theft, shared secrets, privacy, Information Cards and the Information [...]

So much for the naïve thought that I’d have time at the Burton Catalyst conference last week to finally blog about two subjects near and dear to my heart that I knew would be covered at the conference. It backfired because they were too topical—all available time was consumed by related conversations. I did manage two [...]

Last week IDology demonstrated a first that many of us see great possibilities for: an Information Card making a verified age claim. I’m excited at this first step towards the goal of enabling people to routinely use interoperable verified claims about themselves via Information Cards. Obtaining my age-verified card online was easy. I submitted my name, address, and birth date (via a self-issued card) to IDology’s verification process. Next they asked me a few additional questions to confirm that

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

The new announced Information Card Foundation has nine community board members, and I’m pleased to report they all have a keen sense of humor. Case in point: Pam Dingle’s bio on the Board of Directors page: Pamela Dingle Pamela Dingle is an Enterprise Identity Consultant at Nulli Secundus Inc . She is also the founder of [...]

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 [...]