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• No ‘user-centric’ or ‘enterprise-centric’ identity

  Dave Kearns has written a post explaining that, if solutions are architected correctly, there’s no meaningful difference between the two. He writes: We start by defining identity as a group of “personas” (see “Defining identity, persona, role”). Any persona can be made up of a group of personas or roles. Each of those personas can be [...] Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:15 AM from In Context | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, Higgins, Digital Identity, Selectors

• Information Cards: More Subtleties

  Another post in my new series ( 1 , 2 ) of posts related to things you never wanted to know about Information Cards: Why does the infocard.xsd define PositiveUnsignedInt when there is a XML standard positiveInteger already defined? Maybe I am missing a suble difference? Did you notice that the length of a claim's value is restricted to be less or equal than 684 in length? <xs:complexType name="ClaimValueType"> <xs:complexContent> <xs:extension base="tns:BaseClaimType"> <xs:sequence> Read More... Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:31 AM from ignisvulpis | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, xsd, xml schema

• Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense

  Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense written by Randy Stross of the NY Times appeared today. The article starts off well and focuses entirely on the problem of passwords. I particularly like the line: In short, we need a log-on system that relies on cryptography, not mnemonics. Very nice. As for the rest of the article, [...] Read More... Posted Sunday, August 10, 2008 5:06 PM from In Context | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, Digital Identity

• Is Information Card a “Microsoft” Technology?

  It’s a common misconception that Information Card technology is proprietary to Microsoft. In the past there there has been some truth to this, and I realize that most people think it remains true, but it isn’t. Quite the contrary. The design work behind what is now called Information Card technology started about five years ago at [...] Read More... Posted Sunday, August 10, 2008 4:18 PM from In Context | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, Higgins, Digital Identity, Selectors

• Relyingparty Best Practices

  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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 10:42 AM from ignisvulpis | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, multiple claims

• Relationship Cards (R-Cards)

  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 [...] Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 3:11 AM from Equals Drummond | 1 Comments Filed under: Identity Metasystem, Information Cards, General, XDI, Higgins, I-Cards, Social Web, Identity Rights Agreements, VRM, xrds, Data Portability, r-cards, Bob Blakley, Relationship cards, Burton Group, Joe Andrieu, Eve Maler, Relationship Layer

• Pamela Dingle: My Favorite Bio

  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 [...] Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:34 PM from Equals Drummond | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, humor, Blogging, General, I-Cards, Information Card Foundation, Pam Dingle, Pamela Dingle

• The Information Card Foundation: Helping Scale Mount Identity

  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 [...] Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:30 PM from Equals Drummond | 1 Comments Filed under: CardSpace, OpenID, SAML, Information Cards, ID-WSF, General, I-Cards, Identity Commons, Social Web, Relationship cards, Information Card Foundation, Mount Identity

• Can People Learn?

  It appears that the official identity data of many Germans was online readable for over three month... including religion and sometimes a photo. How did this happen? Well, a software company that had successfully sold its eGovernment software to many German communities published the username and password of a demo version of their software on the internet. BUT this username and password happened to be the preinstalled standard username and password of the real application too. Ouch! You don't need Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 7:05 PM from ignisvulpis | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, electronic signature, eGovernment

• The squeaky wheels are oiled for now…

  Whenever things are this quiet, you can be sure that there is a lot of work going on beneath the surface. Just in case you don’t believe me, check out the latest version of the Bandit DigitalMe Selector: I *love* the yellow band that displays the hostname of the Relying Party [...] Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:42 AM from Adventures of an Eternal Optimist | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, Selectors, MS/AD/InfoCards/CardSpace, 60183

• SignOn.com / Google Apps Integration

  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, [...] Read More... Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 12:26 PM from itickr.com | 1 Comments Filed under: CardSpace, OpenID, SignOn.com, Identity, Information Cards, Ping Identity, PingFederate, Google Apps

• Concordia Slides from RSA

  | 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 [...] Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:39 PM from itickr.com | 1 Comments Filed under: CardSpace, Identity, SAML, federation, Information Cards, Ping Identity, interop, concordia, rsa2008, WS-Fed

• Identity at RSA

  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 [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:46 AM from itickr.com | 1 Comments Filed under: CardSpace, OpenID, Identity, SAML, federation, user-centric, OSIS, Information Cards, Ping Identity, interop, infocard, IIW, concordia, rsa2008, WS-Fed

• No User Context Decisions in your Enterprise?

  Photo Credit: CarbonNYC (http://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/76468122/) Enterprise use of information cards have been a topic of great thought for me leading up to my talk at the Directory Experts Conference in Chicago this month and culminating in a panel at last week’s Novell BrainShare conference, in which Patrick Harding, Kim Cameron, Dale Olds and myself talked to [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:57 PM from Adventures of an Eternal Optimist | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, MS/AD/InfoCards/CardSpace

• IIW2007B - My Takeaways

  I’m back from IIW2007B. As always, there was a lot of energy, lot of discussions and lot of networking. OpenID 2.0 was announced. OAuth 1.0 was announced. There were quite a few sessions on VRM. Some good discussions on reputation around OPs, RPs and users. I also got to spend one afternoon in the OSIS [...] Read More... Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 7:24 PM from itickr.com | 0 Comments Filed under: OpenID, SignOn.com, Identity, user-centric, OSIS, Information Cards, iiw2007b