CardSpace is not Information Card
In an otherwise excellent article entitled When will Windows Live stop treating CardSpace as the unwanted stepchild? Simon Bisson and Mary Branscome confuse a technology with an implementation. They refer to CardSpace when they mean Information Card. This undermines the ecosystem and is ultimately not good for Microsoft.
The use of the word “CardSpace” in the article’s title was incorrect. The authors also wrote things like (emphasis added):
So why is Windows Live ID proudly announcing that it’s issuing OpenIDs but not CardSpace IDs?
I don’t even know what a CardSpace ID is. Information Card is the name of an open standard that has multiple competing implementations. One of these implementations is a Selector called Microsoft CardSpace™. Other implementations of Selectors and other components include Novell Bandit’s DigitalMe™, Higgins, OpenInfoCard, CardPress™, Azigo™, and so on. Information Card tech already has the non-profit Information Card Foundation backed by over 50 corporate members including Intel, Deutsche Telekom, Equifax, Novell, Google, and Oracle as well as a growing community of independents, FOSS developers, etc.
