Caleb
was part of the CardSpace design team, responsible for ensuring
that it actually did what it was designed to do. Garrett was the
?¬?rst to integrate Information Cards into products like IIS and
worked closely with developers to develop an understanding of
best practices.
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All three are passionate and charming people and have contributed
substantively to the emergence of Information Card
technology and the Identity Metasystem.
Have fun with their book!
Kim Cameron
Chief Architect of Identity, Microsoft
October 29, 2007
http://www.identityblog.com
Preface
In the past few years, identity has ?¬?nally been receiving the attention
it deservers.
With rampaging phishing and widespread cybercrime as the
forcing functions, the industry as a whole is reacting with a concerted
effort to understand what the best practices are and is
getting there fast. We had the privilege of being among the ?¬?rst
people concretely working on one of the key efforts of the identity
renaissance: Windows CardSpace.
Windows CardSpace is an expression of the new user-centered
approach to identity management. The new approach is poised
to solve many different problems of diverse natures: There are
technological considerations, such as offering better authentication
mechanisms than passwords; usability considerations, such
as guaranteeing that the user has a clear understanding of what
is going on; and even social-science considerations about how
we can effectively leverage trust relationships and make obvious
to the common user the identity of the website being visited.
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