[OpenID - Eu] Mission Statement

Martin Paljak martin at paljak.pri.ee
Fri Jun 1 14:30:24 UTC 2007


On 01.06.2007, at 17:02, Chris Obdam wrote:

> I wan't people to know that when a OpenID provider is member of the
> OpenID Europe Organisation that that provider is safe.

I still don't understand how the safeness of an OpenID provider  
differs from the safeness of a random websites where you would be  
using that OpenID. Or what kind of safeness should be assessed ?  
Privacy ? Authentication security ? Data security ?

Or how a NGO could approve the safeness of its members and why a  
random person should buy that claim (Sounds like 'self signed  
certificate')

This would be as good as to have Euro NCAP (the thing that tests new  
cars) be set on the car industry 100 years ago. The safety of cars  
has been troublesome for a long time but with the rising number of  
cars in europe and the higher assumed safety of cars actually makes  
EuroNCAP useful and trusted because there is a need and there is  
trust for them (they are hopefully somewhat independent). We need  
millions of OpenID *consumers* and after that we can work on the  
certification. It would be like having ultrasafe cars in the world  
with no roads otherwise.

What I'm trying to say is that trust and sense of safety is actually  
pretty personal. I don't automatically 'buy' something because it  
claims to be the best. If the need for such certification arises, it  
shall be filled by an *independent* party.

m.
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Martin Paljak
http://martin.paljak.pri.ee





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