Wednesday, April 17, 2002

Probably the most promising aspect of the Sun-led alternative to Passport, the Liberty Alliance, is that it is based on a federation of trust, rather than one central repository.  Distributed, rather than hierarchical.  [gtb] 12:12:25 PM

Some interesting sidenotes to the cancellation of Hailstorm discussed yesterday.  The number of users subscribed to Passport, Microsoft's single-signon solution at the core of .NET doubled from 7M to 14M between August of last year and February of this year.  However, according this article, that number can be entirely attributed to consumers that are forced to use the service because of their need for other applications such as Hotmail and the Microsoft Developer Network.  Reinforcing the Hailstorm issues, people do not want a central service, and only use it if they must. [gtb] 11:46:49 AM

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