No, Harry Seldon has nothing to do with it 🙂 The establishment of the Information Card Foundation is a milestone in the road of a better Internet. In their own words: Information Cards are the new way to control your personal data and identity on the web. The Information Card Foundation is a…
[edit: the Microsoft Hospitality Suite is on Thursday, not on wednesday as I originally wrote. Thanks Christian!] Next week is Catalyst time. It will be a nice time to raise my head a bit from all the super interesting (but sometime exhausting) stuff we’re brewing here in Redmond, which is leaving me little (zero?)…
Ahh, terminology: joy and sorrow of our kind. There are some expressions that are very catchy and we use all the time, but that do not always serve well the purpose of communicating our thoughts. Take the usage of “passive” in the context of identity management; we tend to use it every time…
I am sure you already fell in love with Live Mesh: I know I did. Today I did a little experiment, which probably shows how desperately I need to go in vacation ASAP: I wanted to do a mega-remote session that would go through pretty much all the physical machines I am using…
I am now focusing exclusively on identity & services, true, but certain news about former interests of mine are just too good not to share. While evangelizing the web capabilities of WCF introduced in the framework 3.5, one of the most recurring questions was about hiding the svc extension for WCF services. That…
Kim just posted a great piece about “an account this week describing an attack on the use of CardSpace within Internet Explorer”. I won’t add anything, because his post is just perfect as it is: I strongly suggest you go read it in its entirety. Here a quote: “Students at Ruhr Universitat Bochum…
I am horribly behind schedule with my blog, I still have to post a wrapup of IIW but didn’t find the time so far; however I want to quickly comment on the recent coverage of the Fedlet (see Pat himself here and Paul here). I attended the nice IIW session during which Pat…
In the last week or so Paul Madsen made at least a couple of posts with strong visual components: one that resumed my old 2005 post on a notation for message crypto, the other on Feynman diagrams. Nice! Paul, when I am in that mood I find especially pleasant to thumb through Tufte:…
…or I clicked “Publish” instead of “Save Draft”. Anyway, the net result is that a post was erroneously published in draft format; since it was during the lunch break, it had the time to propagate and be reaggregated in a number of feeds. Luckily I didn’t write anything especially bad, it’s just that it was…
In short. I make some considerations about what kind of info ends up in a claim, and the things we expect will happen when those info are processed. I then describe what I call infrastructure claims, for the lack of a better term, and their role in authorization; and I introduce the R-STS…