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I-Card Provider
Overview
- An I-Card Provider is responsible for instantiating and managing I-Card instances (that implement the I-Card Interface)
- Providers are also responsible for importing I-Cards from serialized data formats. For example a CardSpace I-Card Provider would be responsible for being able to import CardSpace format data files.
- Different I-Card Provider implementations use different protocols for retreiving identity information. Some might use WS-Trust to request a Digital Identity from a local STS (for self-issued cards), others from a remote STS (managed cards). Still others provide RSS feeds to identity information stored in the Identity Attribute Service