[OpenID] Real Identity Verification

Tue Nov 4 07:40:29 UTC 2008

Interesting you post this. Was having a discussion yesterday with someone
looking at a project that will deal with such services for a very large UK
institution.

They are likely to go with Shibboleth (currently using Athens) at the core
because of the higher level of trust and verification as compared to OpenID.

I argued that to the public user OpenID is much easier to attain and run
with - especially with Google. Microsoft, Yahoo etc now supporting it.

However, I did say that I would be very surprised if OpenID does not bring
this into scope at some point in the near future.

There was also the argument that you can protect resources directly using
Shibboleth. Now maybe someone working on this can correct me, but my guess
is that if you can't already, you will soon be able to map an OpenID to a
token (say a SID in windows) and you'll protect resources using the common
operating system rather than a brand new way of protecting resources. True?

regards,

Steven

http://livz.org

From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Rebecca Cannon
Sent: 04 November 2008 05:11
To: general at openid.net
Subject: [OpenID] Real Identity Verification

Hi all

I'm researching a new online service that I will be building. I want to use
Open ID, however we're going to require real-world identification
verification, as the service will have legally binding information in it.

Just wondering whether open id is being used with real-world identification
verification, and what the list's thoughts are on this. 

Thanks,

Rebecca

 <http://www.webbyawards.com/> 

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