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Difference between revisions of "Higgins white paper outline"

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** Enterprise point of view (may come in front door and or back door)
 
** Enterprise point of view (may come in front door and or back door)
  
** History of the technology of related efforts.
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** History of the technology of related efforts, what are their limitations.
 
***Passport, why it "failed"
 
***Passport, why it "failed"
 
***Liberty
 
***Liberty
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***OpenID (high level)  
 
***OpenID (high level)  
  
** Technology
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** Technology deeper dive  (issue two doors (Higgins client and Higgins Server - yes or 3 doors?)
*** Where they
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*** Architecture  (Extensible, pluggable (Eclipse values), yet multi-platform....)
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*** Selectors
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*** Web Services
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*** IdAS
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*** CP's

Revision as of 11:56, 29 October 2008

  • Draft
  • Editor - Hank
    • A Higgins paper, published under the EPL, with copyright by individual contributors.
      • 1 long complete paper - ~30 pages
      • Will have follow-on effort of shorter documents
  • Goal
    • Make Higgins More digestable. To educate people to a solution
  • Target Audience
    • Persons who have no previous background in Higgins, who need something between the home pages and the technical details.
      • Decision makers - business managers (CIO, CTO's and privacy/policy people).
      • Not for joe the plumber.


  • Outline
  • What are the problems we are trying to solve? There are two sets - (Both a consumer and an enterprise space. (There is tension between user-centric and Enterprise....)
    • See Paul blog on user-centric. Also Blakley's relationship stuff and Dave Kearns blog
    • From the consumer point of view
    • Enterprise point of view (may come in front door and or back door)
    • History of the technology of related efforts, what are their limitations.
      • Passport, why it "failed"
      • Liberty
      • Lid..
      • OpenID (high level)
    • Technology deeper dive (issue two doors (Higgins client and Higgins Server - yes or 3 doors?)
      • Architecture (Extensible, pluggable (Eclipse values), yet multi-platform....)
      • Selectors
      • Web Services
      • IdAS
      • CP's

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