ComputerWeekly reports somewhat breathlessly:

Multiple passwords to access computer networks and services may soon be a thing of the past.

ITU-T X.1250 provides the ability to enhance data exchange and trust in the identities used worldwide by users, network access devices and service providers using a certificate-based public key infrastructure (PKI) system. This is similar to how e-passports are verified.

I figured something was missing in identity land. I’m sure everybody’s immediately going to throw away OpenID, and information cards, and SAML, and what have you, now that the ITU has discovered PKI and solved the problem for us ;-) Clearly all of our work was always doomed to failure because we did not make it work the same way that e-passports work. (Or should I put the last “work” in quotes?)