Kim Cameron, Microsoft's Identity Czar and member of the Identity Gang, comments on Microsoft's announcement that they will support OpenID. Another sign that federated identity schemes are gaining traction and OpenID is likely to emerge as a standard the publishers are going to want to grapple with soon.

This follows Doc Searl's comments on the notion of "Creator Relationship Management" where he speculates that the techniques being used in federated identity schemes and the Creative Commons can be combined to create a new "silo-free" value chain amongst creators, producers and distributors.