OSIS User-Centric Identity Interop at Catalyst Europe 2007

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OSIS User-Centric Identity Interop at Catalyst Europe 2007
Fascinating set of test results posted to a wiki comparing user-centric access systems for interoperability. Worth noting (in my mind) is the way Shibboleth seems totally out of place here, and also the "issues" SxIP has with OpenID. Also, Scott Wilson flags MyOpenID's support for InfoCards. But before drawing any conclusions, it should be noted that these are very preliminary results for a very untested technology. Via Scott Wilson.

Related: Tom Hoffman ponders on some meandering remarks from Jeff Utecht (Hoffman is very tongue-in-cheek, I would say, especially while discussing ODBC). Still, what he says here is worth noting: "What you really want are API's that allow the two applications to talk to each other as peer applications, respecting each application's programming and business logic, rather than plunging their dirty fingers into each other's databases without asking... So... what Web Services are widely (at all) used in K-12 enterprise apps, in the US, at least? Ug... SIF. To say I have a love/hate relationship with SIF would be an overstatement. More...