Microsoft moving from Passport to InfoCard
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft is throwing its weight into the work of unifying a growing patchwork of different identity management protocols for Web services.
Call it the latest lessons learned from what not to do with its .Net Passport identity management system. Passport, which was bedeviled by proprietary platform and security issues, is all but defunct.
Now, with the latest beta1 release candidates of the Indigo and Avalon development platforms for Web services and next-generation graphics subsystems, Microsoft is loosing a new and improved version of its Identity Metasystem Architectural Diagram.