[OpenID] What are openids weaknesses?

[Peter Williams]

Interesting. 15 years, huh. That's 1992. I don't remember him from the 1994 - 1997 period. I dealt with a lot of msft security folks in that period. I lost contact when msft started focussing on its s/mime obligations to Dod.

Ok lets go look for emails from that period. In 1993/4 most of the leadership was in commercenet, funded by darpa (produced shttp). There was a little in w3c,except that focussing  on privacy labels and then object/code signing ( and the relationship between the two, leading to etrust apporach to privacy controls). The rest was https (well known netscape/verisign story) and the wars between pgp vs s/mime V2.  Until dod took control over netsace pki and msft smime v3, that's about it in the internet protocol space. There were some attempts to have html signature, as I recall. Things seem to stop until about 3 years ago.


I know who kim cameron is , says peter the pleb. Heard him speak at didw last year.

The point of the "someone" was ... Its not an authenicated blogsite. I don't know if its kim cameron or not speaking. Should there be an openid way of determining that from a godfaher, at least after 15 years?

Remember peter comes from the bottom half of the class. We are slow, mentally.


-----Original Message-----
From: "Dave Kearns" <dkearns at gmail.com>
To: "OpenID List" <general at openid.net>
Sent: 9/3/07 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [OpenID] What are openids weaknesses?

From: Peter Williams
>
> Following up the link in the zdnet article, somebody at
> http://www.identityblog.com/ has some listed some criteria for
> categorizing distinguished properties ("semantics") of various
> systems. These seem high level - rather than rules for actual
> inter-protocol gatewaying/proxying. But, at least its some
> criteria to start with.
>

That "somebody" is Kim Cameron, certainly the godfather of user-centric
identity, the architect of CardSpace/iCard, and a man who's been leading the
identity debate for 15 years!

I suggest you familiarize yourself with the game, the players (and, perhaps,
the rules) before spouting off...

-dave

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