Even a tech-savvy person like me has a hard time envisioning, never mind comparing, the interaction scenarios proposed by various identity schemes
I completely agree, and would add that nobody, not even the “insiders” really understand what consequences all the different proposed architectures have in terms of, say,
- who gets empowered and whose power diminishes
- how the attack vectors on those different architectures differ
- what governance structures are needed once any of this becomes a mass-market technology
- and so forth.
Which is why I think the Internet Identity Workshop put together by Kaliya Hamlin, Drummond Reed, Doc Searls and Phil Windley is such a good idea. If we all do our part, some real insights will come out of this workshop.