{"id":889,"date":"2007-10-27T15:49:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T23:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=889"},"modified":"2007-10-27T15:53:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T23:53:18","slug":"osis-user-centric-identity-interop-at-catalyst-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"OSIS User-Centric Identity Interop at Catalyst Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

OSIS conducted the third in our series of User-Centric Identity Interop events last week at the Burton Group Catalyst conference in Barcelona. <\/p>\n

As in San Francisco<\/font><\/a>, the Burton Group hosted and provided support for the event, and in this posting<\/a>, analyst and cat herder Bob Blakley reports on what was accomplished:<\/p>\n

There were a few differences between the Barcelona interop and the earlier event held at Catalyst North America 2007.   The most noticeable difference is that the Barcelona interop has been conducted entirely in public.  You can visit the Interop wiki<\/font><\/a> to see details of the organization, planning, use cases, and participants; if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in a hurry, though, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll summarize here.<\/p>\n

Fourteen projects and organizations participated; you can see the list here<\/font><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The participants tested 6 identity selectors<\/font><\/a>, 13 identity providers<\/font><\/a>, and 24 relying parties<\/font><\/a>.  The Barcelona interop added a significant amount of testing of OpenID interoperability; 6 OpenID providers<\/font><\/a> and 5 OpenID relying parties<\/font><\/a> participated.<\/p>\n

The participants have posted their results on the wiki<\/font><\/a>, and a few words are in order about these results.  The first thing you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll notice is that there are a significant number of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153failure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153issue\u00e2\u20ac\u009d results.  This is very good news for two reasons.<\/p>\n

The first reason it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good news is that it means enough new test cases were designed for this interop to uncover new problems.  What you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see in the matrix is that when testing began, there were even more failures \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which means that a lot of the new issues identified during the exercise have already been fixed.<\/p>\n

The second reason the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153failure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153issue\u00e2\u20ac\u009d results are good news is that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re outnumbered by the successes.  When you consider that the things tested in Barcelona were all identified as problems at the previous interop, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get an idea of how much work has been done by the OSIS community in only 4 months to improve interoperability and agree on standards of component behavior.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to call your attention to one more thing.  At the Catalyst North America interop in San Francisco, all the interop participants were onsite, sitting in a room together.<\/p>\n

Here in Barcelona, as you can see in the Participant Profile table<\/font><\/a>, about half the participants worked remotely.  What this means in practical terms is that a lot of the components in this interop were accessed over the Internet, in the same configuration you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d use if you deployed them in your business.<\/p>\n

I expect that the results table will continue to evolve for a while as additional information from the event is digested and entered into the wiki; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll probably post another blog entry with some analysis of the significance of the results after the conference is over and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gotten some sleep.  But my preliminary sense is that this interop continued to demonstrate progress toward an open, deployable, interoperable identity metasystem.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m grateful to all the participants for their hard work, and I hope the next interop moves the ball even further forward. Also, we thank Microsoft for sponsoring the sponsoring the network connectivity as well as the catering for this event.<\/p>\n

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