| RE: [higgins-dev] Proposed "intro text" at the top of the Higgins page |
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+1 =Drummond From: higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Tom Carroll Couldn't anything in Higgins be
considered 'optional', depending on the particular application? More to the point is that while there
may be a bit of stuff in Higgins that is not specific to I-Cards, for end
users, the only way that they directly experience Higgins is through I-Cards.
Higgins components could be cooked into some other third-party applications
that don't deal with I-cards, but I'm not aware of *any* end-user applications
in Higgins that are not specifically and solely focused on I-Cards. If there
are any, I couldn't find them on the Solutions page, which does list three
different I-Card selectors, an I-Card issuing IdP, and an I-Card accepting RP.
I also seem to remember some IBM skunk-works project that built an I-Card
selector for Android. :) So better than redundantly describing I-Cards as
'optional', they should be described as the end-user part of Higgins, which
then provides context for the next paragraph of text next. So the
introductory text could be something like: Higgins is an framework that enables users
and applications to integrate identity, profile, and relationship information
across multiple data sources and protocols. End-users experience Higgins
through the UI metaphor of Information Cards. Information Cards (aka InfoCards or I-Cards) put you in control... BTW - Kudos to Mary for her herculean
effort coordinating this - the site looks fabulous! Finally rid of all
that "purple stuff"! =Thomas.Carroll From:
higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Paul Trevithick [paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Agree that the i-cards is
just an (optional) part of the whole framework. Oddly, that’s the point I was
trying to make in that sentence. I also thought that we needed that sentence to
create a bridge to the i-card content section below. In any case it didn’t
work, so here’s a second try (change shown in bold): |