Reposted from the Google Groups “Identity Workshop” group.
【Summary】
At the Berkman Identity Mashup Conference, Microsoft, Novell, IBM, SXIP, XRI, and VeriSign made a joint announcement about the future of OSIS. According to the announcement, OSIS would become a working group under Identity Commons and pursue the following 2 goals.
1) Eliminate duplication by coordinating the independent activities of these projects.
2) Deliver an open-source Identity Selector through collaboration among multiple projects that is compatible with CardSpace (formerly InfoCard), which will ship with Windows Vista.
【Original】
At the Berkman Identity Mashup Conference last week, there was a joint announcement by Microsoft, Novell, IBM, SXIP, XRI, and VeriSign around the future of OSIS. OSIS will morph into a working group under Identity Commons with two goals:
1) To enable those projects to work independently, but aligned, so overlap of work is avoided, and the parts developed by different projects can fit
2) To deliver an open-source identity selector as a joint effort of ultiple projects, which is intended to be at least as functional, and fully compatible, with Microsoft’s CardSpace (formerly known as InfoCard) identity selector that will be shipped with Windows Vista.
From the OSIS agreement, the Heraldry project would focus, as far as its interaction with OSIS, on developing relying party code, a light-weight identity provider, and a STS for managed i-cards to integrate with Higgins. The Eclipse Higgins project will then focus on client code for both a browser based and rich client identity selector as well as a STS for self-issued cards. In the end, this means that OpenID will integrate with Higgins which will/does integrate with Microsoft’s CardSpace technology.