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** What are the problems we are trying to solve?  
 
** What are the problems we are trying to solve?  
  
** History of the technology of related efforts, what are their limitations.
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** History of the technology of related efforts, what are their limitations, and what is ther current status.
 
***Passport, why it "failed"
 
***Passport, why it "failed"
 
***Liberty
 
***Liberty

Revision as of 12:05, 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


  • Outline
  • Clarify the Audience (Why does he reader care)
    • 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.
    • Audience orientation There are perspecitives - both consumer and 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)
    • What are the problems we are trying to solve?
    • History of the technology of related efforts, what are their limitations, and what is ther current status.
      • Passport, why it "failed"
      • Liberty
      • Lid..
      • OpenID (high level) (Phishing issue...)
    • 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 - very special service
        • CP's
    • So what does this mean?

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