If there is one place where interop has to happen more quickly, it is in web-based identity services. As long as the web is a place where, to borrow a phrase from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, there are no ’stinking badges,’  its commercial potential will have severe limits. But bridges between vendors’ formats are afoot.

Lost amid the clamor at last month’s RSA Conference: The Novell-sponsored Bandit open source project and the Eclipse Foundation’s Higgins Project jointly announced a reference application that shows open source identity services that make Microsoft’s Windows CardSpace identity management system interoperable with Liberty Alliance-based identity federation via Novell Access Manager.

Higgins is a project that is developing an platform-independent, identity protocol-independent software framework. The reference application capitalizes on several parts of Higgins including an identity abstraction layer called the Identity Attribute Service (IdAS), and is available at: http://www.bandit-project.org/index.php/Reference_Application

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