 | | | | Novell promotes the use of open source to round out identity management
|  By Dave Kearns
Last time out, I mentioned that reputation services was part of the buzz at the recent Internet Identity Workshop. I believe that reputation services show great promise in helping to mitigate risk, which could, in turn, lead to a coalescence of user-centric and enterprise-centric identity. But there was something else that came out of a Novell session at IIW that more directly links the user-centric community with the enterprise identity domain. Read full story Dave Kearns is the editor of IdM, the Journal of Identity Management as well as a consultant to both vendors and users of IdM technologies. He's written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print "Complete Guide to eDirectory." His other musings can be found at the Virtual Quill, an Internet publisher which provides content services to network vendors: books, manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing, technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail. Comments to this newsletter can be e-mailed to Dave here. MORE STORIES | | | | | | |
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