{"id":225,"date":"2005-02-14T08:08:59","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T08:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=225"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"i-wish-all-taxonomies-were-this-amusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"I Wish All Taxonomies Were This Amusing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Ceppi has picked up and extended<\/a> an interesting piece by Stefan Brands<\/a> where he uses a transportation analogy<\/strong> to classify personal digital identity systems such as FOAF and LID as bicycles whereas SAML and Liberty are jet planes. Chris goes on to say:<\/p>\n

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Uni<\/a>Under this taxonomy, I see LID as a unicycle – novel, but impractical and limited to people with a very specialized set of skills. As has been dissected in numerous other places<\/a> (most expertly at Burningbird<\/a>), LID's dependence on URLs as an identifier misses the mark in a number of ways – like a unicycle, LID is just not a useful way to get around.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Ces<\/a>SXIP would then be a Cessna – complex enough (with its hosted identities and 3rd party assertions) that you need a pilots license to use it, but not rigorous enough for a broad set of air travel requirements (e.g. SXIP is not based on standards).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Shuttle<\/a>SAML and Liberty as they have currently been implemented might be considered the space shuttles of identity. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n

I'm not sure I buy this taxonomy – I think several of the systems have a lot to offer – but it is really amusing. And I do buy Chris’ conclusions – we have work to do in getting to a unifying metasystem.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Ceppi has picked up and extended an interesting piece by Stefan Brands where he uses a transportation analogy to classify personal digital identity systems such as FOAF and LID as bicycles whereas SAML and Liberty are jet planes. Chris goes on to say: Under this taxonomy, I see LID as a unicycle – novel, … Continue reading I Wish All Taxonomies Were This Amusing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}