“The Higgins and Bandit open source projects are claiming a
milestone in the development of open source identity services with
a link to a new Microsoft identity system.“Backers of Higgins and Bandit plan to demonstrate an early
version of an application at the RSA Conference in San Francisco
which shows open source identity services that are interoperable
with Microsoft’s Windows CardSpace and can enable Liberty
Alliance-based identity federation via Novell Access Manager, a
commercial Novell product…”