{"id":967,"date":"2008-04-07T08:08:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T16:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=967"},"modified":"2008-04-07T08:09:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T16:09:24","slug":"microsoft-must-u-prove-what-its-plans-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft must “U-Prove” what its plans are"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kuppinger Cole<\/a>‘s analyst Felix Gaehtgens calls on\u00a0Microsoft <\/a>to move more quickly in\u00a0announcing how we are going to make\u00a0Credentica's Minimal Disclosure technology available to others in the industry.\u00a0 He says,<\/p>\n

“On March 6th, almost a month ago, Microsoft announced its acquisition of Montreal based Credentica, a technology leader in the online digital privacy area. It\u2019s been almost a month, but the dust won\u2019t settle. Most analysts including KCP agree that Microsoft has managed a master coup in snapping up all patents and rights to this technology. But there are fears in the industry that Microsoft could effectively try to use this technology to enrich its own platform whilst impeding interoperability by making the technology unavailable. These fears are likely to turn out to be unfounded, but Microsoft isn\u2019t helping to calm the rumour mill \u2013 no statements are being made for the time being to clarify its intentions.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow.\u00a0 Felix makes a month sound like such a long time.\u00a0 I'm jealous.\u00a0 To me it just flew by.\u00a0 But I get his message and feel the tines of his pitchfork.<\/p>\n

Calling U-Prove a “Hot Technology” and explaining why, Felix continues,<\/p>\n

“…if Microsoft were to choose to leverage the technology only in its own ecosystem, effectively shutting out the rest of the Internet, then it would be very questionable whether the technology would be widely adopted. The same if Microsoft were to release the specifications, but introduce a \u201cpoison pill\u201d by leveraging its patent. This would certainly be against Microsoft\u2019s interest in the medium to long future.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is completely correct.\u00a0 Microsoft would have to be completely luny to try to partition the internet across vendor lines.\u00a0 So, basically, you can be sure we won't.<\/p>\n

“There is a fair amount of mistrust in the industry, sometime even bordering on paranoia because of Microsoft\u2019s past approach to privacy and interoperability. The current heated discussion about the OOXML is an example of this. Over the last years, Microsoft has taken great pains to alleviate those fears, and has shown an willingness to work towards interoperability. But many are not yet convinced of the picture that Kim is painting. It is very much in Microsoft\u2019s interest to make an official statement regarding its broad intentions with U-Prove, and reassure the industry if and how Microsoft intends to follow the \u201cfifth law of identity\u201d with regards to this new technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We are working hard on this.\u00a0\u00a0The problem is that\u00a0Microsoft can't make an announcement until we have\u00a0the legal documents in place to show what we're talking about.\u00a0 So there is no consipiracy or poison pill.\u00a0 Just a lot of details to nail down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No consipiracy or poison pill. Just a lot of details to nail down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,18,40,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967"}],"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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}