Re:Fundamental issues in identity. (Score 1)

Hurderos/IDfusion is designed to be a general purpose identity generation and management solution. It was designed to be general purpose infra-structure to support intra-organizational identity management needs as well as the identity needs required to participate in a federated environment.

As I mentioned in the original posting a number of problems 'fall out' when the identity definition problem is answered. The thinking on how IDfusion can address the RIM problem was actually developed a couple of years after the original genetic hash chaining algorithms were designed. Its been a pleasant surprise to see the model continually adapt itself to new challenges posed to it.

IDfusion is very much based on a service oriented architecture model. Besides the identity fusion model the other powerful design paradigm has been the use of an Abstract Identity Tree to model an identity hierarchy. The model provides a very powerful model for not only controlling export of identities but for importing a foreign identity and managing the authorization of services for that identity.