Re: [higgins-dev] Digital Identity and IContext open() method

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Greg,

Greg Byrd wrote:
> It's not that we want users to create/use identities in the Higgins 
> Framework.  It's more that
> we want to allow other standard representations -- those typically 
> used to perform authentication
> and authorization -- to be passed in.  An example would be an X.509 
> certificate or a SAML token
> with username and password.

Sure...but they do have to be created in process at some point...and 
it's the creation that typically ends up doing the authentication and 
association of credentials...in a extensible/provider-specific way.  No?

Scott