Northwest Nexus: OpenID & SAML

Long, long ago we kicked around the idea of bringing a few folks together from OpenID and the SAML community to talk a little about each of the technologies and see if there are ways to work together. Well, last week before the OpenID Mash Pit, we had a gathering here at JanRain with a few folks from the SAML world.

It was a great meeting. Low-pressure and honest dialog about the technologies on each side. I feel much more educated as an OpenID user about SAML and what it brings to the table in terms of technology. Its exciting to see the traction that OpenID is starting to garner and more importantly how the community itself is self-forming and self-evangelizing. Earlier last week there was the meeting at Mozilla about Firefox 3.0 requirements and OpenID put on by Chris Messina and Alex Faaborg … this meeting with the SAML folks … Mash Pits all over the world!! Wow!