A couple of interesting updates from around the Identity interoperability world:

  • Positive Response to our Identity Announcements! I posted last week on Microsoft's Identity interoperability announcements at the Interop Las Vegas conference and overall response has been very positive. Check out the post from Neil Macehiter on his blog, digging into the details of the interoperability announcement.

     

  • OpenLDAP Management Agent (Adapted) for ILM 2007 is moving along - The OpenLDAP sourceforge project is also coming along – we uploaded our first version of the code to the site a couple of days ahead of schedule. The management agent is still in its early stages and there's lots of work left to do, but it implements the IMAExtensibleFileImport and IMAExtensibleCallExport interfaces described by ILM/MIIS. The goal is to add support for the IMAPasswordManagement interface as well, and a number of new connection options, improved robustness, performance enhancements (we need to do some benchmarking first), and more. Documentation should be coming online over the next weeks leading up to our first milestone on June 29th. Stay tuned for more details.

     

  • OASIS WS-Federation Technical Committee (TC) to Convene - Don Schmidt, one of the program managers here at Microsoft working on Federated Identity alerted me via his blog that the OASIS WSFED TC will be held on June 6-7. From the OASIS website the charter of the TC "The purpose of the Web Services Federation (WSFED) Technical Committee (TC) is to extend the basic federation capabilities enabled by Web service Security specifications (WS-Security [2, 7], WS-SecureConversation [3], WS-Trust [4] WS- SecurityPolicy [5]) to provide advanced federation capabilities." The work of the TC will be based on an input document published in December 2006, by BEA Systems Inc., BMC Software, CA Inc., IBM Corporation, Layer 7 Technologies, Microsoft Corporation, Novell Inc., and VeriSign Inc. If you're new to the federation space, Don has a couple of good posts explaining the federated identity basics, the relationship of WS-Federation 1.1 to the rest of the WS-* specifications, and the relationship of WS-Federation 1.1 to SAML 2.0. There's also a new whitepaper on MSDN on understanding WS-Federation.

 

Thanks for reading!

Adam