IIW 2005: Mike Jones
| October 26, 2005 @ 12:07 pm | Filed under Identity |
Microsoft’s Mike Jones came and presented the InfoCard which is Microsoft’s identity solution. I have been looking into InfoCard for part of my research.
InfoCard is an identity system Microsoft is building into their new Vista OS. One of the keys behind InfoCard is that a user can submit a selected InfoCard that only gives the service provider the information the user wants to give. Although some providers are going to require certain information to have an account with them.
Kim Cameron, who is also attending and works with Microsoft, mentioned that the idea of InfoCard is to allow the user to make the decisions and not let the sites push things upon the user.
Mike showed an demo of InfoCard using an Amazon demo. After showing how InfoCard was used to login into the site as well to used to make a purchase, a question was asked if the service provider would keep your information you send using an InfoCard. The answer to the questions was “we hope not.” What reasons would a service provider have to keep that data? Does a service provider need to keep my credit card number after I make a purchase? Today it seems the only need for a provider keep my credit card information is for my own convenience.
As I have been reading and looking into InfoCard I have had some questions on it’s implementation. One of my main questions is how can this fit in to non-Microsoft products? InfoCard is to be integrated into Internet Explorer and I am interested to see if there will be any help from Microsoft in providing non-IE browsers.