Commentary by Mark Wahl, CISA

Organizing principles for identity systems:
Gartner Magic Quadrants for User Provisioning (20071002)

The "Gartner Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning, 2H07" published last August is online in both HTML and PDF.

Two areas of "market immaturity" that Gartner highlighted which are technical limitations of many existing user provisioning products are role management, and user-provisioning audit and reporting.

Commentary by Mark Wahl, CISA

Organizing principles for identity systems:
Digital ID World presentation on CardSpace in credit card txns (20070925)

Sid Sidner of ACI Worldwide presented "Online Payments using Information Cards" at the DIDW conference (DIDW2007). This presentation followed from a post "InfoCard and e-Commerce" he made to his blog in December 2006.

He mentioned several enhancements he had requested of Microsoft individuals to be made in future versions of the InfoCard protocols, such as

• the use of the "question mark" symbol in URIs should terminate matching, and
• multiple issuers should be allowed in a WS-SecurityPolicy element.

Commentary by Mark Wahl, CISA

Organizing principles for identity systems:
Digital ID World presentation on LDAP in media asset metadata management (20070925)

Chuck Hurst of Scripps Networks presented "Assigning Identities to Enterprise Assets" at the DIDW conference (DIDW2007). As a media company (HGTV, Food Network, etc.), they observed that they were likely to experience an exponential growth of media "object" assets in the next few years, even though they were anticipating only linear growth in the number of TV episodes they manage. (A single episode might incorporate many snippets of different forms of media objects: video