Sun ONE Identity Server 6.0

scubacuda points to this article at The Register, about "what is believed to be the industry's first identity server based on Liberty Alliance Project specifications for federated network identity (date sheet here). Other reports of Sun's release: eWeek, Information Week, Computer World, & Y!"

Comments

So Wait?

[Jordy]

Why is this under your rights online? Do we not like this system for some reason?

It seems like a perfectly sane system. Distributed login, no personal information swapping between services and even a global logout. All the specifications appear to be published as far as I can tell.

I'm pretty surprised there hasn't been any progress creating an Open Source implementation of the specification. Kinda disappointing.

Now, let's connect this to local IDs

[Max Romantschuk]

I have an electronic ID card, which I haven't really found useful at all... I can in theory use it to identify myself in any kind of electronic transaction.

Now, if identity servers could interact with local registries of people already in existance the whole secure, verifiable electronic ID -thing would really be taken to the next level.

This is probably far to utopistic though...

Re:This particular service begs for an OS solution

[Xrikcus]

If nobody knows where the data is stored, is there not a problem with recovery if some of the system goes down? Extending that, if part of the system only goes down, and only certain peoples information is unobtainable, all of a sudden people know where it's stored...