Technical Approaches to Managing Identity

We'll discuss a variety of approaches to online identity management, from Microsoft's Passport to the open source OpenID--from both a technical and a social standpoint.

Readings on Technical Approaches to Managing Identity

• OpenID and the Identity Systems of Yahoo, Google & MSN
• Kim Cameron's The Laws of Identity
• What Designers Can Learn From Facebook’s Beacon: the collision of “fronts”
• What's Federated Identity Management?