[OpenID] First Production RP starts accepting openID at NIH

[John Bradley]

I have been in DC for the last week, working with Gov agencies to prepare them for Open Identity.

The NIH sponsored a workshop on Thursday where we publicly demonstrated the first production RP connected to the NIH's openID enabled SSO.

The first application is a closed research application.   However people at the conference used there Google and Yahoo openIDs to gain access.

We also demonstrated the openID selectors from MS and Higgins that were shown at IIW.

I met with a number of agencies both inside and outside NIH who were impressed at the real progress we have made.   They are now seeing this is real and not just more talk.    We have another NIH RP of more general interest who are now asking to go live ASAP in the new year.

The NIH SSO is a version of CA SiteMinder modified with Andrew Arnott's DNOA library.   This has been in testing for a number of months and agencies currently using the SSO for SAML and PKI can now elect to add openID and information cards to the credentials they are willing to accept from the SSO.

I want to commend the Board and Don Thibeau the foundations ED,  for putting effort into the ICAM trust framework and making this possible.  I realize there are competing priorities.

I know the pace of progress seems slow from the outside, but for government work this is progressing with blinding speed.   

I just want  to let people know there is real progress being made with the US Gov.


Regards
John Bradley


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