[Fwd: [TriLUG] TriLUG Meeting Pre-Announcement for November 8, 2007 - Pat Patterson speaks "Digital Identity"]

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Subject: [TriLUG] TriLUG Meeting Pre-Announcement for November 8, 2007 - Pat 
Patterson speaks "Digital Identity"
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:37:02 -0400
From: Andrew C. Oliver <[email protected]>
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <[email protected]>

The November 2007 meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group, sponsored
by Sun Microsystems, will be held Thursday, November 8, 2007 at Red Hat.
Directions
(http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html). Pat
Patterson from Sun Microsystems will provide us with a developer
perspective on digital identity, starting from the emergence of LDAP in
the 90s, through single sign-on, SAML and the Liberty Alliance protocols
to recent developments such as OpenID, Cardspace and OAuth. The emphasis
will be on understanding the protocols and how they are implemented in
the real world, with a particular focus on deciding which (if any!)
approach to select for a given project.

Pat Patterson is a federation architect at Sun Microsystems, focusing on
federation, identity-enabled Web services and OpenSSO, Sun's open-source
implementation of those technologies. Pat's
blog(http://blogs.sun.com/superpat) centers on identity-related topics.

Further links to the associated topics can be found on the trilug.org
site: http://www.trilug.org/node/68

-Andy