Pat has a description, and Hubert outlines the server architecture.
The site itself is at OpenID.sun.com.
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Mike Jones (Microsoft), Paul Trevithick (Higgins Project) and myself participated in a Burton Group tele-briefing today. Burton Group is a well-respected analyst firm that has spent probably more time than any other analyst firm on digital identity. They also host the upcoming Catalyst conference. I had the opportunity to give a brief overview over user-centric identity and why it matters to businesses’ bottom line. We then talked about its primary approaches — identifier-based (OpenID) and card-based (information cards)— and attempted to explain why interoperability is important, and how the upcoming user-centric interop workshop at Catalyst will help demonstrate that these new technologies are becoming adoptable. In the second section, Hal Lockhart (BEA) and Rich Levinson (Oracle) talked about XACML. There is a replay of the briefing tomorrow morning, with an opportunity to ask live questions. If you are a Burton Group client, please do feel to listen in.
OpenID has seen its share of critics who are concerned that their OpenID Provider may collect too much information about them (recent example). In a recent story titled "Which ISPs Are Spying on You?", Wired Magazine now points out a much bigger, and much more immediate privacy problem: privacy policies, or lack thereof, at big internet service providers. Let’s do a quick comparison:
I do not mean to downplay the risk that your favorite OpenID provider may “go bad” and does nasty stuff with your data. However, in the grand scheme of privacy, I’m personally much more concerned about credit card transactions, say, entirely unprotected credentials such as your social security number, and as described in the Wired article, the tremendous amount of information your internet service provider probably already collects about every one of us. I was hoping somebody would attempt to write this kind of article, and I’m very glad Ryan Singel did. The even worse story is how little information they actually managed to obtain from these big ISPs, and I’m sure he did try!
This is significant. Look at the other winners:
That’s great company. Also, "disruptors" seems like the exact right category for it. Time for everybody to figure out how not to be disrupted, or use it to disrupt the competition …! |
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Just after bagging the NextWeb award, OpenID is now also a WebWare 100 winner. Of course, we knew that all along. Glad that CNet’s readers agree
Other winners in the same category: