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Podcast: Kim Cameron, Microsoft
31-10-2006
by Tom Raftery
This show, Tom's guest is Kim Cameron. Kim is Microsoft's Identity Chief and as such is responsible for developing CardSpace - Microsoft's successor to the much reviled Passport.
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Kim elucidated the Seven Laws of Identity and is developing CardSpace to conform to those laws. If he manages this, he will have changed fundamentally how Microsoft deals with people.
Kim is also responsible for Microsoft recently releasing 35 pieces of IP and promising to never charge for them.
Here are the questions Tom asked Kim and the times he asked them:
Kim, I introduced you as Microsoft's Identity Chief, what is your official title in Microsoft? - 0:35
What does the Chief Architect of Identity do in Microsoft? - 01:02
Why is it necessary to have identity products in software? - 01:29
How do I know who I am dealing with on the internet? How is that problem being solved? - 03:56
And you as Microsoft's Identity Architect are coming up with a way to resolve this called CardSpace... - 07:08
You were saying CardSpace is to be platform-independent. I run a Mac, will it run on the Mac? - 15:26
You mentioned a couple of companies, are the offerings from these companies going to interoperate or are we going to have another version of the VHS/BetaMax wars? - 17:45
Audience questions
Perhaps more than any of the other Vista-era technologies, in order to really catch on, CardSpace requires broad cross-platform adoption. Kim personally is doing a lot to showcase the use of CardSpace's open standards. What does the broader effort to engage with other platforms and communities look like, and how is CardSpace being received? - 21:10
CardSpace uses an intuitive wallet-and-credit-card metaphor. One of the features of a wallet is that it's portable - I have several pieces of identity with me at all times. I tend to move between computers a lot. What provisions are there in CardSpace for helping me keep mobile (in a secure way)? - 25:07
What happens if your laptop containing your InfoCards gets lost and/or stolen? - 28:00
Dennis Howlett
What's cooking on the identity managemnt front at MSFT? We've been hearing about this on and off for a while - we need progress if we're not to be weighed down by having to remember so many usernames and passwords for the services we consume. - 30:35Tom's questions again:
Will there be a lot of re-engineering of web apps required to roll out these technologies? - 34:03
And finally you mentioned that this is the first version --what can we expect in the next versions and when will they be released? - 39:58
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