The London Olympics games have unveiled the mascots for the 2012 games. All I can say is WOW. And I don’t mean that in a good way. I mean that in the creepy, ugly, panopticony way.
I suppose it only appropriate that a country whose surveillance network causes the Chinese government to say “whoa, too much” should create an Olympic mascot that resembles a strange hybrid of the All Seeing Eye of Sauron and a Teletubby.
Bob Blakley announces here that the Burton Group identity blog has transitioned to individual Gartner blogs. He also announces an SPML SIG at the next two Catalysts.
It’s good to see attention being given to SPML again. But will this translate into real movement to adopt SPML (either 2.0 or a to be developed 3.0)? Perhaps, but we may have to take a step backwards in order to move forwards. If work starts on SPML 3.0 then that will effectively kill adoption of 2.0. But if 2.0 isn’t being adopted anyway, why not go ahead and do a 3.0?
Interesting times.
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OK I kid about the 3D, but I am starting to hear from various identity folks that it’s time to start thinking about SPML 3.0. The latest is John Fontana’s post on that here.
While I don’t think that there are any technical reasons SPML 2.0 can’t be used for interoperable provisioning, the market has clearly not embraced it yet. There are some SPML enabled products out there, but not nearly enough to reach the critical mass that is needed.
So would an SPML 3.0 effort succeed where SPML 2.0 has so far not succeeded? I honestly can’t say, but I feel it’s worth giving it a go. The industry really needs this. My employers products need it.
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