Damn you MacKay (oh, how very Stargate) How old were you when you started programming? You young people today with your 4Gb of memory and your multi-core processors and your fancy disk drives. It’s not like I was when I was young, oh no. My school had an RM 380Z, with a grand 4Kb of memory, 8" floppy drives a fat clunky keyboard and a main CPU box that was the size of 2 Xboxes. How did you get started in programming? The computer teacher was our headmaster. He couldn’t really cope. So I grabbed the manual myself...
The solution that discloses the least amount of identifying information and best limits its use is the most stable long-term solution. One of the tenants of the "Laws of Identity" is minimal disclosure; so why are people ignoring this when they implement Information Cards? There are a three main uses (in my mind) for Information Cards; "form filling" (email address, name, etc.), authentication and authorisation via claims; all important as I try to write the last bit of SharpSTS and start to issue my own demonstration cards. These are separate functions in most web sites, form filling is used...