Wednesday, November 6, 2002

Quote for the day "...[It] reminds me of what Robert Townsend said when he was running Avis. He suggested that IT people were like construction contractors who would rather build a road than worry about where it went." eWeek, Microsoft Office 11: Ready, Aim ... Fizzle, By Peter Coffee, November 4, 2002 4:03:33 PM

SAML 1.0 specification gets a thumbs-up By Brian Fonseca, InfoWorld November 6, 2002 9:50 am PT MEMBERS OF THE OASIS interoperability consortium approved the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) on Wednesday as an OASIS open standard. The move paves the way for the XML-based framework to enable secure SSO (single sign-on) and other security functions for Web services transactions spanning multiple hosted sites.... 12:30:48 PM

Stage Set for Homeland Act. Now that the Republicans have regained control of the Senate, the Homeland Security Act -- which affects electronic privacy -- might be passed ahead of schedule. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News] 12:07:45 PM

There are many aspects to "digital identity" and we will touch on several. One technical aspect is the process of identifying someone, establishing how they may authentication their identity to a system (computer network, website, etc) and then be authorized to access appropirate resources on that system. One key effort underway is by the US Federal Government. They are still in the define the problem and scope of solution phase. Here is a notice to a forum regarding their RFI (request for information) E-Authentication - Making Trust Possible - Federal authentication project Information regarding e-Authentication Policy and Technology Forum, November 21, 2002, Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel 11:56:39 AM