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Higgins white paper outline

Revision as of 11:53, 29 October 2008 by Mary.parityinc.net (Talk | contribs)

  • 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.
      • Passport, why it "failed"
      • Liberty
      • Lid..
      • OpenID (high level)
    • Technology
      • Where they

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