IIW Spring 2008 was excellent. The energy was all about collaboration. Cardspace/Infocard, OpenID, and Liberty (SAMLv2/ID-WSF 2.0) were all represented well. The focus was on how to pull these technologies together, leveraging the best parts of each. So the setting was perfect for the convergence demo that I had prepared, bootstrapping ID-WSF 2.0 with OpenID. The demo was 4 applications: RED-ID an OpenID Provider (OP) and an ID-WSF Client, providing attributes through OpenID Attribute extensions which originated from the user’s ID-WSF Profile Service.

Take a look at the presentation overview

I am in Mountain View, surfing on google’s ubiquitous wifi, finishing up preparations for my IIW demo. It has been a very busy (yet somewhat behind the scene) couple of months for OpenLiberty — I will be posting some cool announcements later this week.

What I am presenting is an ID-WSF environment based on OpenLiberty code that is bootstrapped through an OpenID server. I know, I know… I am breaking cardinal rules, sinning in the eyes of the identity gods (who also care about privacy and trust) — but it is a cool demo. I am also in the process of building the same demo using a SAMLv2 IdP and zxid. After I give the demo I’ll be working on making it available in some form on the Internet.

The weather here is great. I have seen more MacBook Airs than anywhere else, maybe google employees like them. If you are in Mountain view and you wanna hook up, talk identity, send me a note using asa dot openliberty at zenn dot net .