{"id":39,"date":"2007-10-24T13:10:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T20:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-02-07T02:09:37","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T09:09:37","slug":"user-centric-identity-interop-at-catalyst-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"User-Centric Identity Interop at Catalyst in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/images\/Barcelona_Interop_2007_Participants.jpg\" alt=\"Logos of Barcelona Interop Participants 2007\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last night <a href=\"http:\/\/osis.netmesh.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">OSIS<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burtongroup.com\/\">Burton Group<\/a> held the third in a series of user-centric identity Interop events where companies and projects building user-centric identity software components came together and tested the interoperation of their software together.  Following on the Interops at <a href=\"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=12\">IIW in May<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=25\">Catalyst in June<\/a>, the participants continued their joint work of ensuring that the identity software we&#8217;re all building works great together.<\/p>\n<p>This Interop had a broader scope along several dimensions than the previous ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We welcomed <strong>new participants<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ate-software.net\/ATEHome\/ATE\/ate.aspx\">a.t.e Software<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fokus.fraunhofer.de\/home\/index.php?lang=en\">Fraunhofer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/janrain.com\/\">JanRain<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/linksafe.name\/\">LinkSafe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ootao.com\/\">ooTao<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/\">Sun Microsystems<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.siemens.com\/en\/entry.html\">Siemens<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoughtworks.com\/\">ThoughtWorks<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We tested interoperation of <strong>OpenID<\/strong> software (including <strong>i-name<\/strong> software) in addition to Information Card software.<\/li>\n<li>Several kinds of <strong>interop between Information Card and OpenID software<\/strong> were demonstrated, including:\n<ol>\n<li>OpenID providers implementing the <a href=\"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=15\">OpenID phishing-resistant authentication specification<\/a> using Information Cards to enable phishing-resistant sign-in to OpenIDs, and<\/li>\n<li>using <a href=\"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=27\">OpenID Information Cards<\/a> to supply OpenIDs to OpenID relying parties.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Unlike previous Interops, the endpoints and testing results are all <a href=\"http:\/\/osis.netmesh.org\/wiki\/I2-Barcelona\">publicly available<\/a> so that others can benefit from them.<\/li>\n<li>Many of the participants have committed to keeping their sites up beyond Catalyst to allow for continued public interop testing.  For instance, Microsoft&#8217;s sites will remain up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.federatedidentity.net\/\">http:\/\/www.federatedidentity.net\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/identityblog.burtongroup.com\/bgidps\/2007\/10\/osis-user-centr.html\">Bob Blakley&#8217;s insightful-as-always commentary<\/a> on the Interop is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe participants have <a href=\"http:\/\/osis.netmesh.org\/wiki\/I2_Results\">posted their results on the wiki<\/a>, and a few words are in order about these results.  The first thing you&#8217;ll notice is that there are a significant number of &#8220;failure&#8221; and &#8220;issue&#8221; results.  This is very good news for two reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The first reason it&#8217;s good news is that it means enough new test cases were designed for this interop to uncover new problems.  What you don&#8217;t see in the matrix is that when testing began, there were even more failures &#8212; which means that a lot of the new issues identified during the exercise have already been fixed.<\/p>\n<p>The second reason the &#8220;failure&#8221; and &#8220;issue&#8221; results are good news is that they&#8217;re outnumbered by the successes.  When you consider that the things tested in Barcelona were all identified as problems at the previous interop, you&#8217;ll get an idea of how much work has been done by the OSIS community in only 4 months to improve interoperability and agree on standards of component behavior.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Be sure to read his full post for more details on what the participants accomplished together.  And of course, this isn&#8217;t the end of the story.   An even wider and deeper Interop event is planned for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsaconference.com\/2008\/US\/\">RSA Conference in April 2008<\/a>.  Great progress on building the Internet identity layer together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night <a href=\"http:\/\/osis.netmesh.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">OSIS<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burtongroup.com\/\">Burton Group<\/a> held the third in a series of user-centric identity Interop events where companies and projects building user-centric identity software components came together and tested the interoperation of their software together.  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