I'd like to share Trevor Lawrence's comment on my answer to Kapil's question about how InfoCards are displayed in the digital identity management interface:
Yes this does help, or rather confirm deductions from scattered information fragments.
It looks at the moment as if the InfoCard UI has a special case built in to allow you to edit your claims in the self-asserted IP that is included. In general, as I understand it, out-of-band mechanisms are likely to be needed to change the claim data that an external IP asserts for a user. (In an authoritive IP I can't just change my passport number without by some other means proving to this IP that that indeed is the number of a new passport issued to me.)
Because of this it seems to me that the current beta InfoCard UI is a bit misleading.
This is a good way to put it. The self-asserted identity provider is special-cased because, after all, the user can change the claims at will.
I agree that without having an example of a managed card which cannot be edited, the current UI is a bit misleading. I hope you'll forgive us – we didn't want to wait until we had added managed cards before starting to share the concepts with the industry.
