The Liberty Alliance quarterly sponsors meeting was in Vancouver this week, so even though I’m still officially on maternity leave, I decided to attend as much as I could (baby allowing). It was worthwhile going, the baby was a little fussy but slept through enough of the time that I could take part in some [...]
The current weather forecast for Vancouver is sunny and warm (into the high 20s; around 80 F) making it a pretty good place to be right now. All the gardeners of course are busy turning on the watering systems, but given Vancouver also has lots of water this isn’t as much of a problem as [...]
Yesterday I gave a talk at the (fortunately) local BCNET/Netera Converging Minds Conference. BCNet builds networks for the BC research and education community, and the conference was aimed at the administrators, deans, and IT managers who need to know what tools their researchers and students would find useful. The conference agenda had talks on [...]
The current buzzword of user-centric identity led some of us at one of the Liberty Alliance meetings to discuss actually writing down and showing how Liberty specifications could be used to implement user-centric identity systems. One of the outcomes of that discussion was a white paper entitled Personal Identity, edited by John Kemp of Nokia [...]
One of the many projects I’ve been involved in recently at Sun is a white paper that I contributed to, on the subject of Identity Management for Converged Networks. It’s a good introduction to identity management, with a focus on Liberty Alliance specifications and the terms they use. There is a certain amount of product [...]
One of the things I’ve found about trying to figure out identity management concepts and technology is that there are lots of nuances, lots of things to worry about, and it tends to make you more wary (which I guess is all to the good). I now am more careful about whether websites have believable [...]
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