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05 Oct · Wed 2005

Meanwhile, back on *this* planet...

Hmmmm. A colleague pointed me to this interesting perspective on open standards in the Identity world, on the 'Roadmap' page for Apache's TSIK project. I know the Liberty Alliance is a shy, modest and essentially secretive organisation, but it does put out the odd snippet of press and PR information occasionally, so even if you don't get hit by it accidentally it doesn't take much application to find out about it. Specifically, it's very hard to go far beyond www.projectliberty.org without tripping over the Alliance's commitment to open standards. The adoption of Liberty ID-FF specs as OASIS' SAML 2.0 would seem to me to illustrate that as clearly as possible. The Apache website notes that TSIK started out as a Verisign closed-source project. I wonder if any of my Verisign collaborators at Liberty are aware that ID-FF and ID-WSF are not among those the TSIK team considers to be "based on open web services standards". Perhaps someone should have a quiet word......

Posted by racingsnake @ 10:11 AM GMT+00:00 [ Comments [1] ]

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Odd indeed - I've blogged a follow-on: open source != open standards

Posted by Superpat on October 05, 2005 at 08:19 PM GMT+00:00 #

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