The ID Space

One of the great things about CardSpace and the work the Information Card Foundation will be doing is developing how managed cards are going to work in commerce. A good use case is to show an age verified card for situations where you only need to show proof of age — thus limiting the amount of personal data (name, address, email, etc.) required to access a website. Because of our involvement with the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, we felt this was an easy and applicable way to show the future of identity verification which could help address some of the issues the Task Force is exploring this year.

As part of a presentation IDology did to the Task Force last month, we worked with Mike Jones at Microsoft to develop a prototype for using managed “age” cards. Mike does an excellent job of walking through the process in his recent blog post. If you are curious as to how Information Cards are going to work, this is a must read. I think you will quickly see how simple and easy using Managed Cards can be.

Certainly there is still a lot of work to be done in the area. We picked a social network just as an example but there are numerous places a trusted identity can be used online. Trusted Identity applies across the Internet, not just in age situations, and we are excited to be a part of helping to bring this about to the market.