[OpenID] OpenID + Government

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:19:21AM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
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>> From:
>> Peter Williams <pwilliams at rapattoni.com>
>> Date:
>> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:44:56 -0700
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>> Its not necessarily broken. These things are designed to be composed. If any one agency goes for pre-eminence, it will restart the inter-agency wars that made all the previous rounds of this same underlying initiative largely ineffective.
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> ....
>> Part of what draws me to openid is that its a bit counter-culture - and offers an antidote to the above.
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> This made my day.
>
> And since I'm physically present in an Ames Lab building, I felt it  
> necessary to comply with NISTNSABORG.DOE regulation  
> 64432.234.23423.23891.243051.3 sub part 35 and appropriately forward  
> this message to the correct relaying party physical presence identifier  
> corresponding to my meatspace location, with a reply-to for my  
> counterculture free as in speech, not as in beer logical cyberspace  
> identity.
>
> Have a nice counterculture day. All your Identify are belong to us.
>
> NOTICE 64432.234.23423.23891.3: While the sender of this message is  
> physically present on a government operated network, the government in  
> no way, shape, or form is responsible for these crazy rantings. The  
> sender of this message also believes that sarcasm and parody is an  
> acceptable use, but only on lunch breaks.


(And then, of course, I realized I can't send cause I'm not subscribed
to the list with that ID ;)