Anyway

I’ve been heads-down on a pro­ject which was just announced (though not yet up and run­ning, so I’m still work­ing hard with the rest of the team on final details) about Sun put­ting up an OpenID IdP (iden­tity pro­vider). The idea is that this IdP will verify that the per­son using an OpenID of the form http://openid.sun.com/username is a Sun employee. Everything else is self-asserted, so people can use pseud­onyms and non-Sun email addresses, but they will be a Sun employee. It’ll be inter­est­ing to see what hap­pens and how we can use it, once it’s live. That info will be pos­ted to developers.sun.com/identity as soon as the IdP is up and running.

I’ll be post­ing some tech­nical details of what I’ve been doing, and some tips and tricks to help someone else take the OpenSSO code and cus­tom­ize it; oth­ers on the team will be blog­ging about their pieces.

It’s been a fun pro­ject and it will be even more fun see­ing what people do with it. We’re using the tag sun­openid, or you can fol­low along on Planet Iden­tity.