You know, even before considering its merits (and they are many): I’ve always *LOVED* the sheer fact that the Higgins project<\/A> exists<\/EM>. With time the momentum grew, and now I can even point people to the big interop matrix that OSIS publishes<\/A> after every event (Mike<\/A>, thank you for having picked a short & easy to remember URI for your blog; that’s how I usually get to the wiki<\/A>); for what I remember Higgins was the first OSS effort I’ve heard of, and it occupies many columns in those matrixes<\/A> :-). <\/P> So, dear Paul<\/A> & Higgins team<\/A>, congratulations for <\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/U>your 1.0 release<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/U><\/A>: I hope it will be the first of many, and I am looking forward to have the time to play with it. Congratulations, and thank you \ud83d\ude09 you know, I sort of have a long tail too…<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You know, even before considering its merits (and they are many): I’ve always *LOVED* the sheer fact that the Higgins project exists.Higgins in the tangible proof that all this user centered identity talking truly is a movement that touches everyone. You have no idea of how many times, during the many briefings I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,86,30,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardspace","category-identity","category-infocard","category-wcs","category-windows-cardspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Higgins<\/A> in the tangible proof that all this user centered identity talking truly is a movement that touches everyone. You have no idea of how many times, during the many briefings I gave on CardSpace and the IdM in the last 2+ years, somebody in the audience invariably rose to say “Hey, this is all fine and dandy, but you’re Microsoft: what guarantees do I have that this stuff won’t lock me in?”. That is usually the point in which I get ROI for the monstrous amount of money I spend with my dentist, because I can’t help but smile as I go on telling the tale of this amazing project. People from SocialPhysics<\/A>, IBM, Novell, ooTao, Parity… working on supporting multiple aspects of identity management, from the selector itself to RP & IP components, supporting multiple platforms, and happily interoperating (for real!) with CardSpace; icing on the cake, all released under the Eclipse Foundation Software User Agreement! That never failed to defuse the question, of course.<\/P>
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