Getting with the integration program

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:36:37 +0100

One of the things PAOGA has been committed to from the very beginning is to be open. A core principle is that our members data does not belong to us, we hold it on their behalf as a convenience for them, and we hold it no longer than they wish and will not stop them taking it elsewhere. Personally I'd rather not have a business than go back on that.

As we're rolling out PAOGAperson we're trying to ensure that our practice follows our preaching. For example we don't bury our unsubscribe button and we're trying to come up with ways of enabling a download of all of your information stored in PAOGAperson to be useful. (For reference the challenge is not coming up with a solution for today but a solution that will scale: When this thing takes off we can imagine someone wanting to take years worth of data, covering a broad spectrum of their life contexts, with them. How do you make that work? We don't know... yet).

Another area in which we want to be open is login. Back when we started building the underlying platform things like CardSpace were mostly talk and a few heath robinson demo's. But CardSpace has become real, i-Broker has become real, Liberty has become real - real enough to think that integration is now something to be done rather to be agreed with.

As Product Manager it's my call whether this happens sooner rather than later and I'm thinking sooner. Today I did my first CardSpace login using Safari to Kim Cameron's identityblog. I'm still not quite sure what happened but I know something happened and I'm diving in and reading the goods on CardSpace.

I'm also thinking about i-Broker from 2idi. Victor Grey of 2idi was the first to respond to my post about about EULA's for personal information and our friends at Information Answers are hot on the i-Broker platform so I have signed up for my own i-Name. I'll be replacing my email address on this blog with a link to that in the near future.

I'm not quite sure where this leads. We have tried to be driven by what we think are in the best interests of members who sign up. At some point single sign-on is clearly that but is it a priority?

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Getting with the integration program