I&AM: Understanding Geneva

At PDC last week, the "Geneva" platform for federated claims-based identity and access management (I&AM) was announced. Here are some useful resources to get started:

• Identity Roadmap for Software + Services: video with Kim Cameron and Vittorio Bertocci
• Project Geneva part 1, part 2, part 3: Kim provides details about the roadmap
• Identity @ PDC08 HOL, samples, demos, tools: Vittorio provides useful Geneva resources
• Microsoft's New Identity Landscape: Vittorio explains all the Geneva features and modules

Don't let the federation part of this stop you from looking at Geneva, it is utilizing claims for access management and access control you should focus on initially, externalizing it to the identity metasystem. Let the support for distributed I&AM across the extended enterprise be a nice feature that you get for free.