Anyway

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 stuff (this is, after all, a white paper pro­duced by vendors ;-)) but it’s restric­ted to the appro­pri­ate sec­tions. OK, I’m biased, but if you’re inter­ested in iden­tity man­age­ment and want to under­stand the ter­min­o­logy and some of the use cases and the basic archi­tec­ture, this is a good paper to start with.