- used by My Services' services for identity management.
- Single sign-in for 20 participating sites.
- "ticket" (cookie) comes from the passport server.
- can work with IE 6's WinInet API.
- sign-in requires policy statement from server.
- kids passports require parental consent at each new site. (geneology studies?)
- kids passports help sites comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of April, 2000.
- Distributed code (a COM object called the Passport Manager) only works with IE 4.0 and Netscape 4.08.
- the porting schedule claims it is available on platforms besides NT.
See the white paper and the Passport Privacy Statement.