The metasystem includes all foundational identity technologies

I’m looking forward to participating in the new OASIS Identity Metasystem Interoperability Technical Committee (IMI TC) starting next week, which will produce an Information Card standard. As I told John Fontana of Network World earlier this week after the OASIS announcement of the IMI TC, this work is coming at a logical time. The industry [...]

I wanted to bring your attention to a press release about seven new members who have joined the Information Card Foundation from around the world. The new members are Deutsche Telekom of Germany, CryptoPro of Russia, Eduserv of the United Kingdom, ETRI of South Korea, Figlo of the Netherlands, Intel of the United States, [...]

I’m going to start referring to her as the Venn Queen. Eve Maler has done another Venn diagram, this time to show the relationship of whole areas of the “user-centric” sphere of activities. Going into Digital ID World next week, I’ll use this to help orient conversations around why there needs to be a simple, [...]

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 [...]

IBM and Microsoft just published the specification “Application Note: Web Services Addressing Endpoint References and Identity” at http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2006/02/addressingidentity/. This specification is referenced by the Identity Selector Interoperability Profile (ISIP) and is covered by Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise (OSP). This completes the publication and licensing under the OSP of all specifications that Information Cards [...]

Relying Parties often identify subjects using the Private Personal Identifier (PPID) claim and Signing Key values sent by an Information Card. Thus, it is important that the PPID and Signing Key values produced by a card be stable and long-lived. Unfortunately, the PPIDs and Signing Keys generated by self-issued (a.k.a. personal) Information Cards using the [...]

Congratulations and thanks to Pamela Dingle for publishing a detailed analysis of what that the industry accomplished together during the Third OSIS User-Centric Identity Interop (I3). As Nulli Secundus writes about the paper: The OSIS I3 Interop was a five-month event in which organizations, individuals, and projects working in the solution spaces of Information Cards [...]

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>

Let's avoid the word "credential". It has so many meanings as to be confusing