A NEW TECHNICAL PAPER BY MIKE JONES

InfoCard's Mike Jones has just finished a new technical paper that explains how a web designer gets web browsers to invoke the infocard experience. Here's the Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Design Goals
3. Browser Behavior with InfoCards
3.1 Basic Protocol Flow When Using an InfoCard at a Web Site
3.2 Protocol Flow with Relying Party STS
3.3 User Perspective and Examples
3.4 Browser Perspective
3.5 Web Site Perspective
4. Invoking InfoCard from a Web Page
4.1 Syntax Alternatives: OBJECT and XHTML tags
4.1.1 OBJECT Syntax Examples
4.1.2 XHTML Syntax Example
4.2 InfoCard Invocation Parameters
4.2.1 issuer (optional)
4.2.2 issuerPolicy (optional)
4.2.3 tokenType (optional)
4.2.4 requiredClaims (optional)
4.2.5 optionalClaims (optional)
4.3 Data Types for Use with Scripting
4.4 Detecting and Utilizing an InfoCard-enabled Browser
5. References
Appendix A – HTTP POST Sample Contents
Appendix B – Detecting InfoCard Browser Support by Internet Explorer
Appendix C – Corrigenda
C.1. Self-Issued Card Issuer Syntax
C.2. Claim Separator Syntax

I thought the paper was clear – but I'm obviously way too close to know for sure. Mike ran several versions of it past a number of people from across the industry and “known to be interested” in browser matters. Many suggestions were incorporated.

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