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Is OpenID Still User-Centric?
I’m beginning to have second thoughts. Plenty of people (myself included) got involved in internet identity because of its promise to put all of us as individuals at the center of our interactions on-line. To empower individuals to define and offer and enforce their own terms in their interactions with others. To not merely be…
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We’re Saved Thanks to the ITU … Not!
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…
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The “Lack Of User Demand” for Internet Identity
Alexander van Elsas left a comment on my post “On Identity Business Models or Lack Thereof” that I feel I have to respond to. It is not the first time I have heard a comment along these lines, so this is more a response to “everybody”, not specifically just to him. He writes: …The underlying…
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Nico Popp Outlines Government OpenID Adoption
Nico Popp, over at VeriSign, has an interesting post outlining how he thinks the US federal government will adopt OpenID: … there is a clear view that the deployment of low level assurance identities is only a critical first step, not an end in itself. With the initial OpenID pilot, the administration is seeking to…
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Is OpenID/Open Stack What Grand Central Tried to Do?
Remember high-profile Grand Central Networks, which was one of the very few high-flying tech startups after the collapse of the dot-com bubble? (Not to be confused with what became Google Voice, they only reuse the domain name.) Grand Central was founded by Halsey Minor, with the vision of electronically connecting companies and ASPs via standard…