Les Jordan from Microsoft recently wrote a blog post entitled Identity Management: a key to seamless CTMS and EDC. In it, he presents some of the solutions Microsoft is introducing in the identity management space, currently under the name of Microsoft Geneva including the Geneva Framework, and the Microsoft Identity Federation Gateway. The idea is fairly simple. Many (most?) large enterprises already manage their users and systems using Active Directory. Geneva allows publishing the components of your Active Directory required for doing identity federation on the Internet. The publishing is performed in a standards-compliant way (using WS-* and SAML 2.0) and allows it to be used for claims between enterprises. …the issue of Identity Management, Username and Password proliferation, and[…]