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Gartner Identity & Access Management

I am at the Gartner Identity & Access Management Conference this week.

Identity 2.0 Gaining Momentum

One of my prinicipal take aways from the Burton Catalyst Conference: Identity 2.0 ("user-centric identity") is shining considerably brighter these days in the identity management firmament. While not a supernova event like Apple's rollout of the iPhone, we can expect to see more exciting developments. 

The maturation of Microsoft's CardSpace, the user-centric interop demonstration at Catalyst, and new developments around OpenID all presage a bright future for the user-centric approach advocated by identity gurus Dick Hardt (CEO, Sxip) and Kim Cameron (Microsoft's Identity Architect).

• What is Identity 2.0? You can't do better than start with Dick Hardt's entertaining keynote ("Identity 2.0") at Oscon 2005. Want more Dick? Try, "Who's the Dick on my Site."
  
• What are Identity 2.0 principles? Wade into Kim Cameron's influential paper "The Laws of Identity". And then "The Identity Metasystem", which introduces an inter-operable architecture based on the laws of identity.

OpenID Comes to Higher Education?

There's quite a buzz around OpenID both on the Net and in the higher education community. Google trends confirms a sharp uptick in interest for OpenID.

It appears that we will start to see more and more websites supporting it. Stay tuned.