C'est la vie !

Since Microsoft announced their work on InfoCard (or I guess I should say CardSpace now...) the term user-centric identity has been on many people’s blogs and as often happens with popular new terms the spectrum of its interpretations has widen. My esteemed Liberty partners Paul and Eve have blogged about a taxonomy that I think gives an excellent view on what we believe user-centric identity is and how it relates to the important notions of consent and control.

Not too long ago I gave a webcast on user-centric identity (along with John , see his excellent presentation on LECP ) and a prototype we have built that shows how Liberty‘s ID-WSF protocol do support user-centrism. Here is a first list of the technical aspects that supports this:

1. User consent ( SAML2.0 request)

2. Authentication context ( ID-FF , SAML2.0 )

3. Liberty Enabled Client/Proxy (aka. LECP - ID-FF )

4. Interaction Service ( ID-WSF2.0 )

5. People Service ( ID-WSF )

I’ll ad more to it as I think of them.