Talking Identity

Evolving the Identity Services architecture

By Nishant Kaushik on October 17, 2008 5:12 PM

The last 3 months or so has been really good to my work defining our vision for Identity Services. I've gotten valuable input from my colleagues in the IdM business, and my participation in Project Fusion and Burton's Identity Services...

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Is AD really the dominant Identity Store out there?

By Nishant Kaushik on July 16, 2008 10:44 AM

James McGovern has challenged my position that applications should not be written to go directly against AD. And he got the backing of Jackson Shaw in this argument. James says: If pretty much every Fortune 500 enterprise has Active Directory,...

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Talking about the Identity Bus/Hub/Provider

By Nishant Kaushik on May 19, 2008 4:20 PM

There has been a lot of discussion recently on the topic of an Identity Bus (see the recent newsletters by Dave Kearns from May 5, May 7, May 12 and May 14, and some blog posts by Kim Cameron and...

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Virtual Directories + Provisioning = No more Metadirectory

By Nishant Kaushik on March 21, 2008 12:21 PM

There has been an interesting discussion going on regarding the fate of metadirectory technology. Dave Kearns talked about it in his newsletter recently (see: Is the metadirectory dead). In it, he quoted Jackson Shaw, who brought it up as context...

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Revisiting the Identity Oracle concept

By Nishant Kaushik on October 10, 2007 5:37 PM

Yesterday I talked about the NYT article on personal identity management, and alluded to the discussion it generated on the nature of the Identity Oracle that Burton's Bob Blakely introduced a while ago. The Identity Oracle concept is at the...

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