Extending Single sign-on: from my earlier post

In one of my previous posts, I had mentioned about the need for a single sign-on service for the internet. It is exceedingly getting difficult to maintain access credentials to the multiple web sites, people use.

Well, let me tell you that some of the software companies have taken giant steps towards it but for proprietary use only. Microsoft has CardSpace to share identity across its own services be it e-mails or applications. Similar initiatives have been taken by Liberty Alliance and Open ID. All of these are concrete steps towards achieving Single Sign-on on the Internet but the problem so far has been that they can’t interoperate. They are meant for their own world.

But the good news now is that there is a concerted effort to achieve the feat. The interested parties, under the banner Concordia group, met in San Francisco recently to take it further. GM, Boeing, AOL, the U.S. General Services Administration, and the government of the Canadian province of British Columbia participated as Customers to explain how they intend to use this universal single sign-on concept in their organizations. Well started though it will be a while before it turns into a reality but I am waiting!!!