I’m sitting in a talk by John Panzer and Praveen Alavilli of AOL at the Web 2.0 Expo. The talk is about "Mashing up with User-centric Identity". They just coined a new term for something important: "Deputization".

They describe it as the ability of the user to deputize a piece of software to act on the user’s behalf on some subjects, bot not others. Example: A mashup that mashes up certain access-controlled data without the user having to be present.

This is obviously very clearly needed for OpenID, and I think it’s a good term. Opinions anybody else?