{"id":441,"date":"2010-05-20T13:11:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T21:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/?p=355"},"modified":"2010-05-20T13:11:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T21:11:23","slug":"the-best-and-the-worst-of-times-whence-internet-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/the-best-and-the-worst-of-times-whence-internet-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best and the Worst of Times: Whence Internet Identity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 10th Internet Identity Workshop<\/a> this week had record attendance. Since that first one, five years ago, amazing adoption has happened: pretty much all major technology companies have implemented, more than a billion identities in the market, tens of thousands of sites accept them, more people show up to IIW — it must be the best of times.<\/p>\n

But it is also the worst. To quote Phil Windley’s summary<\/a> (go there, read the whole thing, it’s worthwhile):<\/p>\n

InfoCards are largely dormant at this point. Kim Cameron, the father of InfoCards, has abdicated to France…<\/p>\n

The only other player, Azigo, isn\u2019t releasing updated selectors either… All of this adds up to a situation where no one would be comfortable adopting InfoCards…<\/p>\n

OpenID continues to thrash towards becoming a viable solution. The politics surrounding OpenID are worthy of a soap opera…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Phil had the harsh words for Cardspace and information cards this week, I guess I had the harsh words for the OpenID camp last week, calling what’s being developed there the Open Pile<\/a>: turns out not one person (neither on the blog, nor in person) that I talked to this past week disagreed with my diagnosis; most agreed enthusiastically. But then everybody tends to turn around and has great fun adding more overlapping versions of protocols to the pile. Somebody go figure, because I don’t get it. How do we accomplish our vision of portable internet identity if we add more incompatibilities and never remove any?<\/p>\n

So where does this leave us? Twelve steps forward and eleven back, taking two detours in the middle. Or something like that. The movement goes on. Thrashing, like a soap opera, as Phil says. There’s a pony in there somewhere waiting to come out, as John Panzer commented. Well, that pony better be patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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