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List:       openid-general
Subject:    [OpenID] future of the higgins openid+cardspace proposed protocol
From:       Peter Williams <pwilliams () rapattoni ! com>
Date:       2008-06-24 17:04:36
Message-ID: 7FD5B754D66D9A489C584ECA4B32418F0DE7E240 () simmbox01 ! rapnt ! com
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Is folks comfortable with this positioning of Openid?



http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/what_the_heck_is_information_card_foundation.html




That statement really cuts to it. Based on the information that Microsoft provided \
and the nearly hour-long interview, I conclude this: ICF's main technological focus \
is top-layer infrastructure, which includes the main privacy and security metaphor \
and supporting protocols. Vendors would implement broader underpinning technologies, \
using guidelines and protocols adopted by ICF for the purpose of ensuring \
interoperability. Example: OpenID and Windows Live ID as authentication mechanisms \
used by different sites or services for different cards in the wallet.



Microsoft promised "support" (which doesn't necessarily mean compatibility with the \
current protocol/profiles just as they "supported" SAML by rolling their own SAML \
tokens and protocols)



One the one hand, the characterization preserves openid as the dominant culture in \
its "traditional space" (blogs, etc) but only there; on the other hand, openid is \
downgraded to a bit part as an(other) authentication mechanism.



On the one
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