RE: [higgins-dev] Proposed "intro text" at the top of the Higgins page

["Tom Doman" <tdoman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

+1, 'cept how about "One way end-users can experience Higgins ..." 
 
>>> "Drummond Reed" <drummond.reed@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 06/29/08 11:36 PM >>> 
+1

 

=Drummond 

 

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From: higgins- dev- bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:higgins- dev- bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Carroll
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 5:56 AM
To: Higgins (Trust Framework) Project developer discussions
Subject: RE: [higgins- dev] Proposed "intro text" at the top of the Higgins
page

 

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

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From: higgins- dev- bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [higgins- dev- bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Paul Trevithick [paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 12:20 AM
To: higgins- dev
Subject: Re: [higgins- dev] Proposed "intro text" at the top of the Higgins
page

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):

Higgins is an framework that enables users and applications to integrate
identity, profile, and relationship information across multiple data sources
and protocols. One, optional part is an Identity Selector app that helps you
manage your identities as a set of visual Information Cards.