[LINK] RFC: Cloud Computing

[grove at zeta.org.au]

One thing that Clouds will open up is the new realms of Identity 
Management.

As we get more and more users onto Clouds, authorisation and 
authentication is going to become extremely important, especially 
with respect to global user access, directories (LDAP etc) and so.

The old methods are not going to cut it.  I visualise in the near 
future, authentication portals, a bit like the old Liberty Alliance 
or MS Passport, will become quite important as users will want 
to be able to sign in to different clouds, releasing or linking data 
between them transparently, perhaps using certificates to authenticate 
individual data sets or even documents.

I am wondering if Cloud computing at present takes this into account 
or is it just using the old school style methods of authz/authn?


rachel

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