First Came LDAP, then Single Sign On, then Provisioning, then sprouted Identity Management, and then Access Management, and from there on Fererated Identity Management. All the major vendors like Sun Microsystems, Novell, Alcatel, Sentillion, Passlogix, Fujitsu, Evidian, Courion, Data Power, IBM, Verisign, Oblix, Netegrity, Nokia, Intel, RSA Security, Elios, Phaos, Oracle, Calendra, PingID, Thor, M-Tech, Computer Associates, Entrust, Axalto, Microsoft, HP scrambled around adopting Project Liberty standards and releasing their own version of Federated Identity Management Poducts.
I thought that it would be a good thing to get involved in the circle of trust federated identity providers and keep up with the trends and technological advancements in this arena. Apart from getting a comfort factor from being able to learn and master the usability of all these products and their features, knowing their pros and cons, I believed that involving myself in just Project Liberty would suffice. I was so very wrong. Familiarizing myself with this rande of vendor products was a daunting task by itself.
As I started getting involved in discussions around these products, I got sucked into discussions around protocols, framework and specifications. Project Liberty was not the one stop shop. There was InCommon Federation, , SWITCHaai, Athens Access Management, Meta Access Management, and so on... I wonder how much more there is to discover - I Wonder whats NEXT?
Kim, Andre, Chuck, Kaliya, Don, Ian, Kudo I really could use some help here...