At Digital Identity World 2004, Scott Mace talked with Bryan about the progress made overall in the digital identity industry in the past 12 months; efforts to converge SAML and the Liberty Alliance standards; other big hurdles in front of widespread adoption of federated identity; understanding the different use cases driving SAML, Liberty and WS-*; the impact of the Liberty IDFF protocol's contribution to SAML 2.0; why Ping ID is building "pre-standard" SAML 2.0-compliant products; levelling the playing field between large and small technology vendors; the first email client that uses SAML; plans to further support public-key infrastructures; emerging mandates outside of health care and banking; a status report on the SourceID open-source organization; and deployment hurdles and their solutions.

Bryan Field-Elliot has been developing software in the telecommunications arena since 1989. In that time, Bryan has served as CTO and chief architect for three companies, all focused on client/server platforms, network protocols and security. Bryan was a co-founder and the former CTO of Durand Communications, Inc., which he started with Andre Durand in 1991.

This is one of many audio recordings from the IT Conversations archive of Digital ID World 2004 and part of Scott Mace's series, Opening Move.