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- Identity Management as a Service
- Identity Management as a ServiceWindows LiveIDWe commented on an post from Phil earlier in the year on this very subject http://www.mwdadvisors.com/blog/2005/10/loosely-coupled-reinvents-passport.htmlYour references to Passport are interesting in light of this white paper from Microsoft discussion Passport 2.0 aka Windows LiveID: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlive/html/winliveidserv.aspwhich includes the following:Microsoft has published its vision of a...
- Tags: identity management, relying party, identity, identity provider, Windows Live ID, Windows Live ID service, metasystem, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-04-19
- Microsoft's enlightened identity metasystem
- On the final day of Digital ID World 2005, John Shewchuk, CTO for distributed systems at Microsoft, and Kim Cameron, identity and access architect at Microsoft, outlined their company's plan for delivering a unifying identity metasystem, an abstraction layer, based on WS-* Web services technology. "The essential concept of the...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., John Shewchuk, identity
- Blog posts 2005-05-12
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- Windows CardSpace gets Firefox support
- Windows CardSpace gets Firefox supportIE browser is about deadWith just one feature, RSS, there is a compelling reason to upgrade the internet browser on corporate and government computers. I did so last week on my wife's computer. As had been reported to me by half a dozen others, it doesn't...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows CardSpace, RSS
- Discussion threads 2006-12-13
- Windows CardSpace gets Firefox support
- A new plug-in providing Firefox support for Microsofts CardSpace digital-identity framework is now available for public download. Solution architect Kevin Miller, who played an instrumental role in developing the technology, announced the availability of his Firefox add-on for Windows via his blog. Why is Firefox support important? Until...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows CardSpace, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- Internet Identity Workshop and interop
- Kaliya Hamlin, Doc Searls, and I will be doing another installment of the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW2006b) in December. Were back at Computer History Museum, Dec 4-6. The Interenet Identity Workshop is about moving user-centric identity ideas and technologies forward. User-centric identity starts with the...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Security, Web Technology, Internet Identity Workshop, IIW 2005, identity
- Blog posts 2006-11-16
- Meeting of the minds: Microsoft and Mozilla
- So what ever happened to the brave Mozilla delegation that accepted Microsoft’s invitation earlier this summer to travel to the belly of the Borg? Was it mission accomplished, as far as insuring Vista compatibility for Firefox?Looks like the Mozilla folks made it out alive, according to a blog post from...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web browsers, Vukicevic, UAC, Mozilla Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-10-05
- Google's authentication vs. Microsoft's Live ID
- Recent announcements of Google's authentication service have prompted comparisons to Passport, and even gotten to Dick Hardt (of "Identity 2.0" fame) to call it the, "deepening of the identity silo." I'd like to contrast Google's work with Microsoft's recent work around Live ID. Microsoft's Live ID *is* the old...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Passport
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
- Google: The Oracle of Identity
- Bob Blakely just gave a fascinating talk at Catalyst entitled, "Identity and Community in Human Society." I won't try to summarize *all* of Bob's points, which began with the social construction of reality and walked through the "non-person-ness" of corporations and subsequently what they value. Rather, I want to touch...
- Tags: Identity
- Blog posts 2006-06-15
- MSDN Architecture Webcast: "InfoCard": Introduction (Level 200)
- Password fatigue and online fraud is a growing problem that is shaking users' confidence in the safety and security of the Internet. "InfoCard" is the code name for a new technology from Microsoft that helps address the problem of managing and disclosing identity information. "InfoCard" implements the core of the...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft Windows CardSpace
- Webcasts 2006-06-11
- Unconferences and the value of participatory events
- The Internet Identity Workshop ended Wednesday afternoon and I've had a day to decompress. This was really an outstanding event and one I'm proud to have been a part of. Even though I was one of the organizers, along with Kaliya Hamlin and Doc...
- Tags: unconference
- Blog posts 2006-05-05
- The many players at IIW
- The Internet Identity Workshop also talked about here has been going on for the past few days. The workshop is centered on "user-centric identity," which is confusing enough to be sure, but when you throw in the various protocols, systems and groups working in it -- well, things get downright...
- Tags: OpenID, Identity Metasystem, Lid, identity
- Blog posts 2006-05-03
- Step-by-Step Guide to InfoCard
- InfoCard is not the "Son of Passport" that some in the media seem to fear. Passport is a single identity system and, as such, naturally fits into the metasystem as one of many technologies available to InfoCard users. But unlike the old days when Passport was being positioned as the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows CardSpace, Passport, Microsoft Corp., Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Why does Microsoft Passport suck?
- The Microsoft Passport Network is supposed to be an effortless way to share a single set of logon credentials across multiple sites. Instead, it’s a colossal annoyance. Even Microsoft employees gripe about the inconsistencies and abysmal user experience of Passport.How does Microsoft Passport’s sign-in process suck? Let’s count the ways:It...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Passport
- Blog posts 2006-04-05
- Higgins and Vendor Sports
- A few days ago IBM, Novell, and Harvard's Berkman Center announced the Higgins Project. Higgins is a "user-centric identity" system that will be open source and managed by the Eclipse Foundation. When we held the Internet Identity Workshop last October, Paul Trevithick spoke about Higgins (listen...
- Tags: Higgins, Higgins Project
- Blog posts 2006-03-03
- Design Rationale Behind the Identity Metasystem Architecture
- Many of the problems facing the Internet today stem from the lack of a widely deployed, easily understood, secure identity solution. Microsoft's "InfoCard" project and the Identity Meta-system vision underlying it are aimed at filling this gap using technology all can adopt and solutions all can endorse, putting users in...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Identity, Internet
- White papers 2006-02-02
- Craig Burton cries 'ubiquity'
- At Novell, Craig Burton was one of the driving forces behind the modern notion of a network as a collection of services rather than a collection of wires. He's a master at seeing the big picture and identifying the limitations of particular strategies within that picture. I've known...
- Tags: Craig, Identity 2.0
- Blog posts 2005-10-07
- The red herring of data protection
- The numbers lately have been staggering: 145,000; 13.9 million; 40 million. I'm speaking, of course, of the recent rash of "data loss" -- the innocuous term for "millions of accounts containing personal data being exposed to the wrong eyes." Whether it's MasterCard, ChoicePoint, LexisNexis, Bank of America, Wachovia, Stanford or...
- Tags: identity, credit card, identity federation
- Blog posts 2005-06-21
- InfoCard and Web Services
- Over at the IT Garage, Doc Searls goes through some history of Microsoft's InfoCard initiative and asks some good questions. InfoCard is an identity metasystem that Doc correctly describes as a "barn raising project" led by Microsoft. Kim Cameron, Microsoft's chief identity architect, believes that Microsoft has an...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., InfoCard, SoaP, Microsoft Windows CardSpace
- Blog posts 2005-06-06
- InfoCard and Web Services
- Over at the IT Garage, Doc Searls goes through some history of Microsoft's InfoCard initiative and asks some good questions. InfoCard is an identity metasystem that Doc correctly describes as a "barn raising project" led by Microsoft. Kim Cameron, Microsoft's chief identity architect, believes that Microsoft has an...
- Tags: InfoCard, Microsoft Corp., SoaP, Microsoft Windows CardSpace
- Blog posts 2005-06-06
- All about Infocard
- By the end of this month Microsoft's will be releasing a "technical preview" of InfoCard, a new framework for managing identities based on WS-* protocols. Microsoft is also rolling out other related technologies for federation. It's a big deal if the industry can come up with a generally agreed upon,...
- Tags: Identity, Laws
- Blog posts 2005-05-19
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