Joe Andrieu, one of the leaders of the VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) community, has posted a good initial assessment of Microsoft’s first foray (post-Passport) of storing personal data for consumers via their Health Care Record initiative. It’s well worth reading his assessment of how this really legitimizes the market for “personal data stores”.

Since that’s one of the primary use cases for which XDI is being developed as a protocol and Higgins is being developed as an open source projects, there will be much more to say about this in the coming months.