{"id":380,"date":"2007-11-21T20:42:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T04:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/bob-blakley-the-most-serious-problem-in-identity"},"modified":"2007-11-21T20:42:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T04:42:34","slug":"bob-blakley-the-most-serious-problem-in-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/bob-blakley-the-most-serious-problem-in-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Blakley: The Most Serious Problem in Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent interview<\/a>, Bob Blakley<\/a> of the Burton Group<\/a>, recently was asked about "the most serious problem" interoperable identity is facing. He responded:<\/p>\n

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The most serious question we’re facing – and really it trumps all the others – is “how do identity providers make money”?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now here is a true statement about this budding industry if I ever heard one. As far as I can tell, today none of the public OpenID Providers<\/a> has anything resembling a business model for what they do, not even the inklings of one. With the exception of the very big guys (e.g. AOL) where also asserting identities to third parties is a small incremental cost to their offering, while potentially reaping lots of indirect benefits, such as visibility into the browsing behavior of their customers.<\/p>\n

[This explains why we stopped investing into our public identity provider<\/a> some time ago. I simply can’t see how a startup can make any money off it. It will stay around and keeps signing up customers, and it’s an interesting project to learn from. But money?]<\/p>\n

This does not mean there aren’t a number of identity-provider-related business opportunities around that actually do have a model. And yes, some of you reading this have asked us about this ;-) and we are glad to help out, either directly or with partner(s).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a recent interview, Bob Blakley of the Burton Group, recently was asked about "the most serious problem" interoperable identity is facing. He responded: The most serious question we’re facing – and really it trumps all the others – is “how do identity providers make money”? Now here is a true statement about this budding…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comments","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}