Yep, OpenID looks interesting. I am a fan of Lightweight Identity specs (may be that is an oxymoron). V1.1 is more of identity than a trust fabric. Looks like the wip (2.0) will jump into the trust semantics. So may be we can implement the 2.0 and that will give us the required trust substrate.
Cheers <k/> > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Bicking [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:38 PM > To: Ivan Krstić > Cc: Krishna Sankar (ksankar); [email protected] > Subject: Re: [sugar] Integration with web apps (and Moodle > specifically!) > > Ivan Krstić wrote: > > Krishna Sankar (ksankar) wrote: > >> Hopefully you are looking at Liberty Alliance, SAML and Shibboleth > > > > These are, for the most part, solutions to a problem we > don't have. As > > I've stressed before, I see the laptops providing strong > > authentication only in *very* constrained cases; for > everything else, > > there's standard authentication. > > > > One thing I would like to do is eventually make use of the strong > > authentication to the school server to integrate with OpenID, and > > automatically offer an OpenID identity to the kids to use > on the open > > web as they choose. This is post-rev1 work, however. > > +1. I think OpenID balances a lot of these privacy issues > pretty well, > while at the same time you can get a fairly seamless > experience. Well, seemless except for a bunch of redirects. > > -- > Ian Bicking | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://blog.ianbicking.org > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar
