Thoughts and experiences from an enterprise software architect.
This is a personal weblog by Jorgen Thelin, a Senior Program Manager for Windows Live Identity Services at Microsoft in Redmond.
The opinions expressed here represent my own views and not those of my current, prior or future employer(s).
Two new whitepapers describe Microsoft's Web services based identity vision, the InfoCard implementation of that vision, and the intellectual framework behind many of the choices made in the Identity Metasystem. Part of the real beauty is that everything build on top of the existing WS-* architecture - particularly WS-Trust.
Defining a set of fundamental principles to which any universally adopted, sustainable identity architecture must conform, the "Laws of Identity" were proposed, debated, and refined through an open and continuing dialogue on the Internet.
The Vision of the Identity Metasystem
The Identity Metasystem is an interoperable architecture for digital identity that assumes people will have several digital identities based on multiple underlying technologies, implementations, and providers.
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