Thursday, February 07, 2008 - Posts

• Mike jumps on the OpenID Foundation board of directors

  Good news everyone! Our very own Mike will represent Microsoft on the OpenID Foundation board of directors, which to me seems a natural choice given all the work he has done in that space (for example, this ). Wait a minute, a Microsoft representative in the OpenID Foundation?!? If that surprises you, that means you didn't get the news : Google, IBM, Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo joined en masse the OpenID board of directors. The future is now people! Read More... Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:02 AM from Vibro.NET | 1 Comments Filed under: CardSpace, Windows Cardspace, Identity, Architecture - WS, WCS, Infocard

• Microsoft Joins the OpenID Foundation and its Board of Directors

  Today the OpenID Foundation announced that five leading technology companies, Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the OpenID board of directors as its first corporate board members. This news comes a year and a day after the JanRain/Sxip Identity/Microsoft/VeriSign OpenID/CardSpace collaboration announcement introduced by Bill Gates and Craig Mundie at the RSA [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:37 AM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, OpenID, Phishing Resistance

• Information Card Relying Party Software for Python

  While you’ve seen posts about Information Card Relying Party code for lots of programming languages and environments here (ASP.Net, Ruby, Java, PHP, C) one language I haven’t posted about before is Python. To make up for that, here’s information about two Python implementations. Turns out that the Bandits, in their inimitable style, have been quietly [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:40 AM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 1 Comments Filed under: Information Cards, Software, Bandit Project, JanRain

• ANSI-BBB Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel Final Report

  The ANSI-BBB Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel recently issued its final report. Quoting from the report announcement: Launched in September 2006, the IDSP was established by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and Better Business Bureau (BBB) to identify and catalog existing standards, guidelines, and best practices related to identity theft prevention. Panel [...] Read More... Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:58 AM from Mike Jones: self-issued | 1 Comments Filed under: Documentation