ID Gang
The ID Gang met on Monday - right before DIDW.
We discussed providing a governance and technical due diligence entity that could keep Microsoft honest in their upcoming identity standard efforts - InfoCards.
I’ve referred to InfoCards as a “big momma identity backplane” - which enables any sort of identity system - to jack into a backplane - which all other identity systems share.
Doc, Phil Windley, Mary Hodder and lots of others will be talking about InfoCards and the Identity Gang in the future - and the Berkman Institute at Harvard and Stanford will provide the entity some structure and a home or two.
Meanwhile all the other identity platforms were represented at the meeting, including Shibboleth, Liberty Alliance, i-names and Sxip - so you BET this standard is gonna have some traction.
I’ll make sure XFN, FOAF and other bottoms up technologies (like LID) are included as well.
The one question we all have is - “will any of the big boys play along?”
The goals of InfoCards are to solve spoofing and phishing and provide a safe, secure platform that implements Kim Cameron’s Seven Laws of Identity. By inter-connecting disparate identity systems together - we can achieve an identity service layer for the Web 2.0.
But this is not about putting Identity into some context. It’s about applying identity to all sorts of contexts - from health records being sent to the local soccer coach to tracking your buying habits between systems, from creating a ‘hub’ portal interface for all your presences around the web to consolidating your media collection - a true identity platform is key to the future of Web 2.0.
Just as long as us humans are in control of that profile info and identity - of course.
I can’t really say more - legally - about when the InfoCards code is ready and how it’s all gonna unfurl - but at least we have an Identity Gang to watch out for our interests.
FINAL NOTE: Sorry for the horrible photo. I was just discussing (last night at the Supernova party) with Heather Champ (the verifiable Queen of Web Community phorography) how come I couldn’t get a decent shot our of my 6630 - she’s got one. She had no answer. I guess it’s my chubby fingers and smoggy lens.
Featured in Photo: Doc, Mary Hodder, Kim Cameron, Owen Davis, others….
“so you BET this standard is gonna have some traction.”
In which standard body would this be standardized? Has an InfoCard specification been or will be submitted to IETF/OASIS/ISO/W3C/LibertyAlliance/?
Or is the Identity Gang the standards body?
“so you BET this standard is gonna have some traction.”
In which standard body would this be standardized? Has an InfoCard specification been or will be submitted to IETF/OASIS/ISO/W3C/LibertyAlliance/?
Or is the Identity Gang the standards body?
“so you BET this standard is gonna have some traction.”
In which standard body would this be standardized? Has an InfoCard specification been or will be submitted to IETF/OASIS/ISO/W3C/LibertyAlliance/?
Or is the Identity Gang the standards body?
It seems likely that Infocards will require an ActiveX in the browser and the whole WS-Stack on the server. So that pretty much counts out Firefox, Mac and Linux on the desktop and perl/python/php on the server. And probably means that it just won’t work unless the server is MS through and through.
So just like Passport, it’s unlikely to work with anyone but the big boys.
Do you really think you’ll ever get to implement Infocards on ourmedia.org? I think not.
It seems likely that Infocards will require an ActiveX in the browser and the whole WS-Stack on the server. So that pretty much counts out Firefox, Mac and Linux on the desktop and perl/python/php on the server. And probably means that it just won’t work unless the server is MS through and through.
So just like Passport, it’s unlikely to work with anyone but the big boys.
Do you really think you’ll ever get to implement Infocards on ourmedia.org? I think not.
It seems likely that Infocards will require an ActiveX in the browser and the whole WS-Stack on the server. So that pretty much counts out Firefox, Mac and Linux on the desktop and perl/python/php on the server. And probably means that it just won’t work unless the server is MS through and through.
So just like Passport, it’s unlikely to work with anyone but the big boys.
Do you really think you’ll ever get to implement Infocards on ourmedia.org? I think not.