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Identity is everywhere at this PDC2008! After the keynotes and the many breakouts, let me introduce you to the Booth. We are in the Big Room, on your right, and we are easily recognizable thanks to 1) the big "Identity for software+services" signage and 2) the fashionable pistacchio shirts we drape ourselves in. The booth has staff from DPE|Identity, from the federated identity group, from the Live Services group and from the .NET services. There's always a lot of people there super-eager to introduce you to the glamorous world of identity, and delve into the details of the new products we announced this week . Above there's a snapshot of the people you can find there this morning. Form left to right: Matt Steele. Ask him about Geneva Server, then try to make him stop. Seriously, GREAT guy. Micah LaNasa. Inflexible booth shifts controller. Implements IStarbucksCardFactory. Vittorio Bertocci, AKA Vibro.NET. For more info click here Donovan Follette. ADFS guru, the true engine behind the Big Demo (more on this later) Tom Mereckis. Marketing mastermind, fearless paladin of the Claim Based Access initiative Caleb Baker. Author and speaker extraordinaire Liam Price. Live maven, knows everything about the new Live Services Not show in the picture (because they were with customers, while we were slacking & taking the picture): Rich Randall. Dev lean on CardSpace, tomorrow he'll unveil in more details CardSpace "geneva" Marc Goodner. Historical WS-* figure, ask him for some anecdote Read More...
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The latest issue of the Architecture Journal is available for download here (I am breaking the news even before the rest of the pages are updated from issue 15 to issue16: see how much I care about you?;-)). What makes this especially interesting is that issue 16 is entirely dedicated to identity! I have to admit that I've yet to read most of the articles, but I've definitely went through 2 of them: One is an interview/profile with Kim Cameron. It's a nice read, and I am sure you'll enjoy to know more about Kim The other is an article from yours truly, titled "Claims and Identity, On-Premise and Cloud Solutions". It expands on this post , and rolls in various others Writing for the Architecture Journal is a big honor, as you can see from the list of high profile former contributors, and I am very grateful to Diego for having my article in this issue. Thanks man! And thanks also to Gianpaolo , with whom I had many deep discussions that helped me to keep the abstraction tangents to what i hope is an acceptable level :-) As usual, if you have feedback feel free to send it my way Read More...
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Well, it's almost one month since I wrote the last " useful " posts : you would not believe how incredibly busy I am on stuff I can't talk about just yet (but soon, very soon). In this quick update I am excited to report that I am going to speak at TechEd New Zealand & TechEd Australia ! As strange as it may sound, the 114 flights I've boarded since I moved to Corp (October 2005) never took me under the equatorial line; furthermore, it's since first grade that I'm told how cool it is that New Zealand is at the exact antipodes of Italy, has roughly a boot shape as well, etc... that's the farthest place from home I can travel to without leaving the planet :-) I am going to deliver 2 sessions , both in NZ and in AU: Identity & Cloud Services (Architecture track, level 300) The shift towards cloud computing is one of the major trends in today’s IT industry. As resources and assets are increasingly hosted off-premise, traditional strategies for access control and identity management are proving incapable of handling distributed scenarios and cross-boundary communication. This presentation briefly outlines how architectures relying on claims-based identity management, security tokens and open standards can address cloud computing scenarios with the same ease with which they can handle traditional ones. The identity capabilities of Biztalk Services will be featured as a concrete example of an application of the new paradigm. “Zermatt” Developer Framework: Putting Authentication Read More...
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Almost one year ago I briefly mentioned the Biztalk Service SDK, here and here . A new version has recently been made available: you would not believe the amount of new features that were added to it in this timeframe. The main reason of excitement for me is that this new release supports managed cards ! It's a bit late at night here in Redmond and the drowsiness makes me feel less than bright right now, so I better defer detailed explanations to tomorrow (or the weekend). Anyway, for the identirati tuned in, this basically means that the service bus offers a R-STS that will accept, among many other means of authentication, also third party's managed cards. The behavior of the R-STS can be influenced by using the Biztalk Services identity portal , or by management API; you can translate attribute claims into authorization claims (if an incoming claim has a certain value you can issue a token which tells to the ultimate destination that the caller is authorized to perform the call; you can copy the input claims directly in the issued token so that the info is preserved; and so on). "Artist" rendering below: Again, I'll be more verbose in a later post: in fact, I plan to walk you through a sample that will make you hit the ground running exactly with that feature. The managed card support is the feature that I find most appealing ( surprised ?), but in fact there are many other great additions such as X509 authentication, REST management APIs, support for multiple languages ... Read More...
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On the Paris-Seattle flight, coming back after 2 weeks spent stuffing myself with all sorts of food with the excuse "after all, you can't find this in USA" :) Before hurling myself back in the vortex of daily work, and celebrate the end of the year with something crazy, I want to take some time writing down some hallucinatory (=vision without execution) thoughts about omnidirectional identities . Be warned, this may be just pointless rambling at this point. Few weeks ago I chatted about this in front of a microphone with John Udell , digressing along a crazy tangent instead of answering his questions about the book (I eventually came back to Earth and answered properly :)). I don't know if he'll deem those fragments publication worthy, but just in case I'll make a brain dump here. It's not that there's much more to do in this small seat anyway (just finished the latest Eco . He didn't mention underbite at all, I'm happy). Looking back at the activities related to identity in the past year, I am glad to report that amazing progress has been done. Something that makes 2007 very different from 2006 is the kind of work that was made: in 2007 the accent was on execution. The vision behind the metasystem is still being explored, sure, like Kim's series on linkage or the discussions about display token and first law demonstrate; and I feel that conjugating the metasystem and claims in enterprise environment is an area that still need focus (especially in fighting old forma mentis that Read More...
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