This IDS term is very new, and a work in progress... IDS (Identity Data Service) is a name for a set of web services bindings over the IdAS Java Interfaces. The IDS name was chosen to make a distinction between a true web service (IDS) and IdAS which despite having ³Service² in its name, isn¹t a web service.
We created this new umbrella term, IDS, so that we could talk about a set of services each using its own protocol. We have in Higgins, for example, created a prototype ³XDI Engine² that lives under this umbrella. Sitting alongside the high-abstraction XDI protocol, we envision more purpose-built low-abstraction protocol bindings for IdAS such as Portable Contacts. Novell¹s non-Higgins OTIS work is an illustrative example of a RESTful web service binding for IdAS. Over time we envision a number of these. We hope that low-abstraction web services (e.g. PoCo) will make Higgins IDS much more accessible and familiar to at least the web 2.0 crowd. So that¹s our intent. As you point out, we need to fill in the content on the blank page. The XDI Engine work can be a starting point that we can reference from this blank page. [The XDI engine isn¹t quite finished. My understanding, for example, is that authentication aspects are not complete. But it is a place to start.] Does this make sense to folks? (esp. Markus)? --Paul On 4/17/09 3:59 PM, "David Kuehr-McLaren" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The IDS link from the Higgins 1.1 plan page seems to point to a blank page. > Is the IDS information posted some place? > > http://wiki.eclipse.org/Higgins_1.1_Plan#Java_Frameworks.2C_Libraries_.26_Mode > ls > > http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php?title=IDS&action=edit > > Thanks for any help, > > David > > David Kuehr-McLaren > Tivoli Security > 919.224.1960 >
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