Information Manager Journal

OATH and OAuth

Is anyone in the identity managment business confused about the difference between OATH and OAuth? The names are quite similar. OATH, introduced in 2004 by Verisign, is an open standard. OAuth is an open source project from employees of Yahoo, Google, SixApart and others. OAuth was discussed at last weekend's Data Sharing Summit, and is better described here by Dare Obasanjo of Microsoft.

Adventures in OpenID

Last night I attended a press briefing by Ping Identity Corp., which announced signon.com. I took this as my opportunity to acquire an OpenID address -- it's scottmace.signon.com -- and to download InfoCard for a Windows XP computer. The InfoCard download took a half hour because I had to grab Microsoft's .Net Framework 3.0 in order to get it -- and inevitably, some patches. Then there was a plug-in to get (xmldap) to make it work with Firefox 2.0. In the end, InfoCard told me my Firefox didn't support it (huh?), and the one OpenID-enabled Web site I tried to use -- PeopleAggregator -- didn't seem able to help me modify my account there to recognize my new OpenID. I do believe OpenID and InfoCard will be very important steps forward in the Web, but the first such steps are for those with lowered expectations and patience. Loose coupling means lots of moving parts.

IIW 2005 podcast: The Green Room

This session, recorded October 27, 2005, took place in the conference's “green room,” set up for attendees who wished to create a podcast of their discussions. Among the participants were: Joaquin Miller, product architect and vice president of engineering at NetMesh; Rob Marano, adjunct associate professor at The Cooper Union; P.T. Ong, founder and chairman of Encentuate; Alain Bloch of Rubyminer.com; Bob Morgan, Senior Technology Architect, Computing & Communications at the University of Washington; Paul Trevithick, co-creator of socialphysics.org and co-founder and CEO of Parity Communications; Jair of Imaginify Community Network; Gabe Wachob, chief systems architect at Visa; Scott Lemon, of FreeID.org; Dave Kearns, editor of Identity Management Journal, and myself, Scott Mace, editor of Information Manager Journal. Podcast from the Internet Identity Workshop 2005. (43:28)

Link to Open Distributed Processing Reference Model

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IIW 2005 podcast: Closing session

Closing session, podcast from the Internet Identity Workshop, Oct. 27, 2005 (28:54)

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IIW 2005 podcast: Paul Trevithick

SocialPhysics And The Higgins Trust Framework, featuring Paul Trevithick, co-creator of Socialphysics.org and co-founder and CEO of  Parity Communications, podcast from the Internet Identity Workshop, Oct. 26, 2005 (37:43) [Wiki abstract]

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IIW 2005 podcast: Brad Fitzpatrick

OpenID, featuring Brad Fitzpatrick, chief architect of Six Apart, podcast from the Internet Identity Workshop, Oct. 26, 2005 (1:19:53) [Wiki abstract]

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IIW 2005 podcast: Johannes Ernst

Decentralized, REST-ful Digital Identity with LID, featuring Johannes Ernst, founder and CEO of Netmesh, podcast from the Internet Identity Workshop, Oct. 26, 2005 (44:19) [Wiki abstract]

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IIW 2005 podcast: Dick Hardt

Identity 2.0 Design Guidelines and the Evolution of the SXIP Protocol, featuring Dick Hardt, founder and CEO of Sxip Identity, podcast from the Internet Identity Workshop, Oct. 26, 2005 (1:15:02) [Wiki abstract]

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IIW 2005 podcast: Drummond Reed

XRI Metaidentifiers, featuring Drummond Reed, CTO of Cordance Corporation and co-chair of the OASIS XRI and XDI technical committees, podcast from the Internet Identity Workshop, Oct. 26, 2005 (1:39:32) [Wiki abstract]

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IIW 2005 podcast: Brett McDowell

Liberty Alliance Overview, featuring Brett McDowell, Director of Operations at Liberty Alliance, podcast from the Internet Identity Workshop, Oct. 26, 2005 (47:13) [Wiki abstract]

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