I’m making a flying appearance at TechEd this year talking about Infomation Card security token services and their implementation; for those interested the session is

Windows CardSpace Case Study 1: Identity Providers – Experian (SBP05-IS) 8 November; 10:45 - 12:00 Room 131

I’ll be joining Steve Plank and Jim Lound from Experian on stage. The abstract for the session is as follows;

Experian is in the Identity Business in a big way. Banks, Building Societies, Financial Institutions and governments use their identity validation services to validate the identities of potential customers. Experian will be one of the first commercial identity providers able to provide validated identities to commercial and government organizations. Experian have a working model (which is to become a live, running, business system) deployed on the internet where you are able to demonstrate and test the identity metasystem and Windows CardSpace in a practical way. Come and learn how this system was built and what criteria were used when designing the system; what claims the service will provide and how identity validation works on the internet in a practical sense.

Pop along. Ask questions. Get me confused. There will be no socks thrown into the audience this time <grin>.