Microsoft Moving From Passport to InfoCard
The .NET Passport system proved to be pretty useless to most Internet users, myself included, because of it’s cross platform limitaions. If Microsoft can achieve true interoperability in it’s new InfoCard System, along with the user control and flexibility it promises, there’s no doubt that consumers would use a service that would make their daily online experience less complex.
Microsoft said its architecture for the identity metasystem, called WS-* Web Services, is supposed to provide greater user control and flexibility. For example, users decide how much information they disclose, to whom and under what circumstances, thereby enabling them to better protect their privacy, which would rely on strong two-way authentication of identity providers and relying parties, the white paper explained.
In addition, the InfoCard is more flexible about how the personal information is stored. Microsoft said it could be via an online identity provider service of the user’s choice, on the user’s PC or in other devices such as secure USB keychain storage devices, smartcards, PDAs, and mobile phones.
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