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Contents
Generic Definitions
- See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-card (The page Paul started)
- See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Card (The page Mike Jones (Microsoft) started)
- For the good of the industry Paul and Mike are *trying* to converge the definitions. This involves compromises on both sides. Microsoft claims that "Information Card" is a generic term, but historically has used it to mean the two kinds of cards supported by CardSpace. Through discussion they've been updating Information Card wikipedia page to be less CardSpace-limited.
I-Cards: Higgins Implementation Point of View
- I-Card: An object implemented and managed by an I-Card Provider plug-in
- I-Cards are the basis for user-visible I-Cards (described previously) appear in the ISS Web UI (On Firefox, currently part of Higgins Browser Extension), ISS Client UI or the I-Card Manager UI as rectangular icons
- The I-Card schema is used by the Higgins I-Card Selector Service to match against the relying system’s policy requirements
I-Card Types
- I-Cards are implemented, instantiated, managed by I-Card Providers that plug in to the I-Card Registry
- See I-Card Provider for a description of the types of I-Cards under development or planned
Higgins defines three I-Card Interfaces. Two are required and one is optional
I-Card Types: Required Interfaces
- All I-Cards implement the generic, base ICard interface. It includes methods to get the issuer of a card, the background image of a card, the display name of a card, the supported attribute/claim schema of the data retrieveable by the card, a way to retrieve the current value(s) of the claim(s) of the card, and so on.
- All I-Cards implement the ITokenCard interface whose prominent feature is the getDigitalIdentity method that returns a signed security token that includes the claims and their values
I-Cards and the I-Card Registry
- I-Cards are implemented, instantiate and managed by plug-ins called I-Card Providers
- All I-Card Providers must support the two required interfaces (including ITokenCard)
- Managed I-Card Providers are responsible for interactions with external IdP/STSes and/or attribute sources (e.g. IdAS)
- I-Card Providers are responsible for persistence and encryption of their I-Card instances (user can control where (e.g. on the net, in thumbdrive) each card is stored)
I-Card Accessed List
- The I-Card Registry maintains an accessed list for each card that provides the history of what parties have at one time or another been granted access to the card
- It is list of triples:
- Relying Party’s URL
- Timestamp of first access
- Timestamp of most recent access
- Notes
- Valery thinks that this accessed list maintenance should be an I-Card Provider responsibility
- This accessed list history is not exported with the card when a card is exported.
- Should the accessed list be "clearable" by the user?
- Should we be able to export an entire I-Card Registry?