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The New Federated Identity
I’ve been asked to put together a feature for InfoWorld on user-centric identity. The feature will include written text, a couple of podcasts, and some flash animations. I’m a little excited about the opportunity to use these different media to communicate the idea of this important topic to business.
The podcasts will be 15-20 minutes each on the following topics:
- Podcast on user control and laws of identity
- Podcast on state of identity in enterprise
I’ve already got these scheduled with guests, so please don’t ask to be on the podcast.
The initial outline for the written part is:
- Intro to User Centric Identity — statement of problem (300-400 words)
- Technology: OpenID & CardSpace (700 words)
- User-Centric Identity in the Enterprise - how can I use it now? (touch on security, privacy, federation, customers, limitations, etc) (800-1000 words)
- Futures - where is this going? (500 words)
If you have ideas on any of these areas, please let me know or leave a comment. I’m particularly interested in where you think this will go in the near term.
Posted by windley on November 6, 2007 6:10 PM
Comment from Craig Overend at November 6, 2007 8:14 PM
Can you include something on what I consider the most critical element of all these systems; user experience? How people will use these systems in real life. In the near term I don't see OpenID or CardSpace with widespread adoption because of the awful user experience.
Personally I see the future of user-centric identity systems being built on top of a content-centric information systems. Not the other way around as we're doing it now.
Comment from Axel Nennker at November 7, 2007 3:38 AM
Isn't there a discrepancy between the podcast's title and the current outline? The title does not have user-centric in it, but the word federation. While the outline is mostly about user-centric identity with only one occurrence of federation...
Regarding ideas: I would like you to discuss whether and when it makes sense to have federation and user-centric identity in the enterprise. How does this depend on the size of the organization?
Regarding the near future in the enterprise: There is probably no way around talking about ADFS 2. See e.g.: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/archive/2007/11/01/adfs-2-at-teched-europe.aspx
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