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.