RE: [higgins-dev] can Higgins help me with that?

["Mary Ruddy" <mary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fabien,

Think of the Context Providers or Plugins or Adapters (They are
different words for the same thing) connecting something like LinkedIn
or an Email system or an LDAP system to the IdAS as pipes. There is data
stored on either end.  

Yes access policy and security are key.  We've been doing a lot of work
to develop and demonstrate interoperability with various identity
protocols. Each Context Provider is responsible for supporting the
appropriate access policy for the specific system (context) it
interfaces with.

>Jim wrote:
 > - No one has built connectors yet such that different identity
readers
 > (address books, IM lists, etc.) can all read the same identity store.
 > It'd be cool if they were able to use IdAS as their interface.

>What prevents them from using the IdAS API? Is it the API itself or the

>missing plugins for these programs?
>As i explained above, this is exactly what i want...

Nothing specific prevents them from using the IdAS API per se.  It was
designed for this kind of use.  One just needs to know how to write to
the IdAS and build the specific adapters/plugins that are needed. (The
more adapters that are built for different systems, the more likely that
someone with a new use case who needs several adapters will find that
some of them have already been built.)