| RE: [higgins-dev] Higgins Project in General |
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As a consumer of
Higgins, declaring a focus on Information Cards doesn't reflect what
Higgins means to me (and the broader community Higgins can serve).
While Information Cards are a major aspect of Higgins, the ALF project consumes
very useful Higgins components (STS, CPs, IdAS)
without leveraging Information Cards at all, at least at the
moment.. My sense is that associating Higgins with Information Cards too
strongly will pigeon-hole the project to that niche of the Identity space where
the where a human user is in the loop. I would prefer to see Higgins
focus on Identity in general, with a focus on bridging/unifying/abstracting the
many existing identity schemes and mechanisms - for both headless and human-in
the loop uses. I believe that is where Higgins can offer the most value to
the community, and while Information Cards are a useful aspect for human-facing
negotiations about identity and credentials, as a consumer, as a consumer,
I would like to see a broader focus on Identity in general.
Regards,
Brian
Brian
Carroll | Eclipse ALF Project Lead | Serena Fellow
From: higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Sermersheim Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:41 AM To: higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: 'Higgins (Trust Framework) Project developer discussions' Subject: RE: [higgins-dev] Higgins Project in General I think
if we came up with text that is concise enough that people are willing to read
it, and is accurate and not confusing or too abstract, the group would want to
change to that. I beg to differ that information
cards are the unifying metaphor as that is assuming that there is an identity
selector and that is not the underlying component in this project (it was and
still and add-on). I think its also important that this project not get confused
with Information Card Foundation as it seems that this is where it is
heading.
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"Drummond Reed" ---06/25/2008 12:04:29 PM---+1. Tony, in all fairness,
this topic has received a lot of discussion both on the list and on the weekly
calls over the past f