For Ada Lovelace Day I’d like to point to the eminent work of Eve Maler in the fields of security, identity and XML.
Her ability to select the important bits and leave the chaff behind is an example to the rest of us. If you have not read the Venn of Identity, please have at look at the paper. The issues of SAML, OpenID and InfoCard are layed out as described in the abstract:
Federated identity management lets users dynamically distribute identity information across security domains, increasing the portability of their digital identities. It also raises new architectural challenges and significant security and privacy issues.
Some recent work that Eve Maler is involved in includes work with (among others) my colleague Andreas Åkre Solberg on an Interoperable SAML 2.0 Web Browser SSO Deployment Profile , where the bare bones of interoperability are laid open for the world to see.
I have yet to meet Eve, but keep track of (some of) her work and knitting by reading her blog.
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Identity Networks 
March 25, 2009 at 17:14
Hi Ingrid – Eve is indeed a fantastic lady, but her surname is Maler, not Mahler 🙂
March 25, 2009 at 21:12
And the necessary spelling update is done, thanks Pat!
I really need to meet this woman, that would make the spelling easier 🙂 and possibly add to my knitting