Seems like he is making a case for the OpenID movement. So, point one, we're becoming more and more interconnected. Businesses will do more and more business digitally, hence the need for agreed upon standards for communication, interconnectedness, etc. This will result in “de-perimeterization”, the dissolving of corporate boundaries, firewalls, routers, etc. He's advocating “legonic” (Lego like) technologies and businesses where they can easily be connected. Tomorrow's systems will be “agile and self organizing” and good at handling multiple sources of information with variable credibility. Cameron's point is that just like Remote API fell to the wayside in favor of loosely coupled Web Services and SOA, so to will identity management.
Enter in CardSpace and OpenID. This allows people to make “claims” about themselves or others and then to set up infrastructure to allow independent third party providers to validate the claim. This is EXACTLY the same point that SXIP's founder Dick Hardt made two years ago in his presentation to Open World (although his use of the Lessig style was far more compelling). Cameron also postulates, as a side note, that there will be increasing regulation around the concept of identity and anonymity on the Internet and the interconnected world.
So Microsoft's work is geared towards building out Cardspace to interact with things like ADFS, Security Token Services (STS), and Web Service Security protocols. Questionable? I wouldnt know, there was NO question and answer period provided for Mr. Cameron's keynote. Is he asking us to blindly validate his “claims”?
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