To make that degree of control even possible,
the user must understand what is going on. Always.
The Seven Laws of Identity and the Four Tenets of Service
Orientation
If you are familiar with service orientation, here is an analogy for you.
To some extent, the seven identity laws are similar to the four tenets of service
orientation. The tenet ???Share schema, not object??? is not an absolute dogma, and
no service-orientation police will come to arrest you if you don??™t respect it. The
consequence, however, is that you will not be able to serve loosely coupled
clients that don??™t understand your object technology. It is observing exactly this
shortcoming that brought on the formulation of the tenet in the ?¬?rst place.
Similarly, if you develop an authentication schema that mandates one speci?¬?c
technology, you are breaking law 5 (see ???Pluralism of Operators and
Technologies???). Nobody among the authors of this book will come to haunt you
for that, but you should be aware of the fact that your authentication schema
may have shortcomings in certain areas and is probably not ?¬?t to become the
universal identity management system.
The user must
always understand
what is going on
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In today??™s practices, we witness gross violations of the ?¬?rst law
everywhere.
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