[Zope] Article regarding JPassport

I saw this article regarding passort. So did Python beat Java to the punch? Seems to me andym released a Passport interface a while back.

Weatherly has been involved in a Microsoft.NET-related project for more than a year, writing code for a Portable.NET project as part of GNU/Linux's version of .NET.

Although Weatherly did not dispute claims that JPassport is the first of its kind, he highlighted the work that is being done on single sign-on authentication systems worldwide.

"They [BuyItOnline] may be correct [in claiming] this is the first product in the world of its kind. But this is perhaps because almost everyone else is trying to replicate the whole of Passport, not just the client side