Documents of Interest

Analysis of a User-Centric Interoperability Event - August 2008

The OSIS I3 Interop was a five-month event in which organizations, individuals, and projects working in the solution spaces of Information Cards and OpenID collaborated to define and demonstrate their ability to transact successfully regardless of differences in hardware or software platform. Participants worked within each solution space to define and test acceptable behaviors for various situations that crop up when loosely coupled solutions communicate with each other via open protocols. Interop participants created results within two different matrices: feature test results which recorded adherence to acceptable behavior when explicitly tested, and cross-solution results which recorded overall interoperability between solutions with complimentary roles. Combined, the participants recorded over 1200 mostly successful results.

As new solutions enter this space and existing solutions add to their feature sets, the OSIS Interop process and results serve as a metric to inform developers what features will contribute to a consistent experience for users and administrators. OSIS Interops have served as a focal point for discussion and feature concentration and a forcing function to solidify the protocols. Overall, much was accomplished but there is still work to be done. By examining participation, contribution to best practices, process and collaboration, discoveries, and obstacles, the Interop process can be refined and improved to give even more value to those involved; by doing so, diversity in product offerings will not result in difficulty for end users.

Download the complete report here: I3 Analysis.pdf [1.1MB]

Pamela Dingle's Conference Presentation Slides

Directory Experts Conference 2006

The Identity Meta System and Microsoft InfoCard in an Enterprise Context NSI-pdingle-dec-mar06.pdf [2.8MB]

Directory Experts Conference 2007

CardSpace: The Selector Strikes Back NSI-pdingle-dec-apr07.pdf [912.KB]

Directory Experts Conference 2008

In the Kitchen with CardSpace: Recipes for Cooking Up Enterprise Information Cards NSI-pdingle-dec-08.pdf [1.7MB]

RSA Conference 2008

Breaking the Identity Metasystem NSI-pdingle-rsa-apr08.pdf [4.3MB]

Burton Catalyst 2008

What I Learned When I Stopped Thinking About InformationCards and Started Using Them: A Drama in Three Acts NSI-pdingle-catalyst20-jun07.pdf [1.8MB]

Digital ID World Conference 2008

The Plot to Kill Identity NSI-pdingle-didw-2008.pdf [7.7MB]

CSI 2008

The Three Little Dots: Identity 2.0 and Getting From Where We Are to Where We Must Be NSI-pdingle-csi-08.pdf [16.1MB]