[higgins-dev] Higgins CardSpace-related development plans

["Paul Trevithick" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kim,

 

Thanks again for calling into the Higgins Face-to-face meeting that we held in Raleigh August 23-25. As we mentioned, the meeting went very well and the discussion with you was helpful.

 

We left the meeting confident that implementations based on Higgins components will be able to interoperate on UNIX and OSX with CardSpace™-compliant STSes as well as provide functional equivalence to CardSpace™ on these platforms.

 

With respect to this effort, the Higgins project intends to:

- Duplicate the CardSpace UI

- Import/export cards to/from the CardSpace file format

- Use the CardSpace schema

- Use the WS-* protocols and profiles as they are used in CardSpace implementation(s)

 

Microsoft has published documents that will help us. We intend to use the information and intellectual property embodied in a number of publicly available documents such as:

- A Tech Reference for InfoCard in Windows. 

- A Guide to Integrating with InfoCard

- A Guide to Supporting InfoCard within Web Applications and Browsers

- Windows CardSpace Reference in the Windows SDK

- Windows Communication Foundation and CardSpace (MSDN library)

- MSDN.microsoft.com/winfx/reference/infocard/default.aspx

- Articles in MSDN magazine related to CardSpace

 

We intend to practice all inventions and patents required to implement our system. We will be creating derivative works from what is described above. Code and documentation developed in the Higgins project will be licensed under the open source "Eclipse Public License" (EPL).

 

We need an agreement to indemnify any practitioner involved in doing what is described above.

 

Cheers,

-Paul