It does seem that he's taking a conservative approach, which is probably prudent for this pilot phase.<div><br></div><div>Indeed, there are many issues to resolve and work out — and starting with "disposable" uses of identity are a good, safe, first step to getting the public to get a sense for what this kind of identity-interaction might "feel" like.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It also speaks to the fact that we're largely focused on L1 interactions, where this is little to no assurance about the identity being authenticated. In such circumstance, the government really doesn't need to know who you are to reserve a campsite for you — only make it easier for you to manage your reservation by not forcing you to create a throw-away account and password.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Baby steps to be sure, but essential ones.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Mike Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Michael.Jones@microsoft.com">Michael.Jones@microsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="color:#1F497D">US Federal CIO Vivek Kundra
spoke about the US government identity initiative during the O’Reilly Gov
2.0 conference this morning. His remarks were in the context of things he
is doing to make government’s IT investments more efficient.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#1F497D">He gave the example of making
campground reservations at <a href="http://recreation.gov" target="_blank">recreation.gov</a>, which currently requires you to
create an account that you’re unlikely to use again soon. He said
that since you already have identities from Google or Yahoo or Microsoft,
wouldn’t it be better to let you use those identities at the government
site? He then said that they were working with the OpenID Foundation to
make that happen.</span></p>
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-- Mike</span></p>
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