[LINK] RFC: Cloud Computing

[Marghanita da Cruz]

grove at zeta.org.au wrote:
> 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?
> 
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There is Google OAuth:
<http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OAuth.html>

Marghanita
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