<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/2.9.2" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Mike Jones: self-issued</title>
	<link>http://self-issued.info</link>
	<description>Musings on Digital Identity</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:32:47 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>Using Consumer Identities for Business Interactions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Medtronic, PayPal, Southworks, and Microsoft recently worked together to demonstrate the ability for people to use their PayPal identities for participating in a Medtronic medical device trial, rather than having to create yet another username and password.  Furthermore, the demo showed the use of verified claims, where the name, address, birth date, and gender [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=325</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Identity Interop at Catalyst San Diego, July 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ll be participating in an Open Identity for Business Interop being held by OSIS at Catalyst in San Diego this month.  This multi-protocol interop event includes exercising the US Government identity profiles developed as part of the Open Identity Solutions for Open Government initiative.  Microsoft is hosting testing endpoints using AD FS 2.0 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=319</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>AD FS 2.0 Interop Step-By-Step Guide:  CA Federation Manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has published the first of a series of step-by-step guides on configuring AD FS 2.0 to interoperate with partner products.  This guide describes how to configure AD FS 2.0 and CA Federation Manager r12.1 to federate using the SAML 2.0 protocol.  The guide is available in HTML and Word format.  Thanks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=315</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Card Issuance CTP for AD FS 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Microsoft released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of software for issuing Information Cards that works with the recently released Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 server software.  This means that as well as supporting identities using WS-Federation and SAML 2.0, people can try out scenarios where their identities are based on Active [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=305</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>2010 OpenID Summit EU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A European OpenID summit will be held in London on Tuesday, June 8th at the Microsoft Offices at Cardinal Place, 100 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5JL, UK.  This is the same location as the European e-Identity Management Conference, which follows it June 9th and 10th.  Topics are expected to include:  use cases, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=301</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>AD FS 2.0 Has Shipped</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 shipped today.  In addition to supporting WS-Federation, as the first version did, this release also supports the SAML 2.0 and WS-Trust protocols.
At this milestone, I’d like to thank the numerous partners who did extensive interop testing with us as AD FS 2.0 was being developed, helping ensure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=297</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Update to Identity Selector Detection Script for IE8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In December, 2006 Garrett Serack (Fear the Cowboy!) wrote about Detecting CardSpace support, including FireFox.  His detection script since made its way onto numerous sites and into relying party software releases.
Unfortunately, this script didn’t detect selectors on Internet Explorer 8 due to changes between IE7 and IE8.  Andrew Arnot asked the question Why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=290</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Public Review of Information Card SAML Token Profiles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, OASIS announced the commencement of the 60-day public review period for the SAML V1.1 Information Card Token Profile Version 1.0 and the SAML V2.0 Information Card Token Profile Version 1.0 specifications.  These specs propose standard profiles for SAML 1.1 and SAML 2.0 tokens when used with the Identity Metasystem Interoperability Version 1.0 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=282</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>U-Prove Specifications Licensed and Sample Code Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning at the RSA conference, Scott Charney announced that Microsoft has licensed the U-Prove technology under the Open Specification Promise and released sample implementations in C# and Java under the BSD license.  Implementers will be interested in two specifications:  the “U-Prove Cryptographic Specification V1.0”, which documents U-Prove’s cryptographic operations, and “U-Prove Technology [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=272</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>I’m registered for the Internet Identity Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Are you?  It’s where Internet identity work gets done.  The super-early bird discount is still available through February 1st.  (And yes, Microsoft is buying dinner again.)  See you at IIW!
]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=267</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Updated Federated Identity Product Releases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Microsoft announced the availability of new releases of several identity products:  Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0, the Windows Identity Foundation, and CardSpace 2 (which collectively were formerly referred to as “Geneva”), as well as Federation Extensions for SharePoint.  See Announcing the AD FS 2.0 Release Candidate and More and Announcing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=263</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>OpenID v.Next Goals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The OpenID v.Next session at IIW run by David Recordon and Dick Hardt reached some important conclusions about the future of OpenID.  The motivation for the v.Next discussion was the sense that we’ve learned enough since the OpenID 2.0 specification was finalized that it’s time to revise the spec to incorporate what we’ve learned. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=256</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>An Experimental Identity Selector for OpenID</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The OpenID community has been talking about the value that an optional active client could bring to OpenID for well over a year.  To concretely explore this possibility, as many of you know by now, a team at Microsoft built a prototype multi-protocol identity selector supporting OpenID, starting with CardSpace 2, which I and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=235</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m working directly with developers on a prototype project at the moment.  I’ve tried to keep the lessons from this great post by Paul Graham about how programmers work most efficiently in mind when interacting with them.  Here’s a teaser excerpt to get you to read the rest of it:

When you&#8217;re operating on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=231</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Liberty Alliance SAML 2.0 Interoperability Testing Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m pleased to report that Microsoft passed the Liberty SAML 2.0 interoperability tests that it participated in, as did fellow participants Entrust, IBM, Novell, Ping Identity, SAP, and Siemens.  Testing is an involved process, as you can read about on the team blog, with numerous tests covering different protocol aspects and scenarios, which are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=226</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>US Government Open Identity Initiative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been an open secret in the identity community for the past several months that the US Government has embarked on an initiative to enable people to sign into US Government web sites using commercial identities.  The public announcements of the first steps were made last week during the Gov 2.0 Summit.  Now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=216</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Internet Identity Workshop is Unique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s no other event like it where Identity leaders come together to collaborate and advance the state of Identity on the Internet together.  Be there and be part of it!
Tuesday-Thursday, November 3-5, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA.  Early registration discount available through Wednesday, September 16th.  Register now!
(And yes, Microsoft will once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=211</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>CA and Microsoft Identity Products Interop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CA and Microsoft have published a whitepaper describing interop work the two companies have done between their identity products, ensuring that they work well together. SiteMinder and CA Federation Manager from CA and Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 and Windows Identity Foundation from Microsoft were the products tested.  The interop work covered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=191</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Interoperable Verified Identity Claims Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of us share a vision of an Internet where people can have authorities that they trust make verified claims about themselves in contexts that they choose.  For instance, using an identity that can issue “age-18-or-over” or “age-21-or-over” claims for me may enable me to utilize services at a site accepting those claims from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=183</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Catalyst Federation Interop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m writing to thank the Burton Group for sponsoring the federation interop demonstration at the 2009 Catalyst Conference in San Diego.  As you can see from the logos, they attracted an impressive set of interop participants.  It was great working with the knowledgeable and enthusiastic colleagues from other companies to assure that our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://self-issued.info/?p=174</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
