[OpenID] Applicability of OpenID to Federal Govt Social Software sites (U)

[Dickover, Noel, CTR, NII/DoD-CIO]

UNCLASSIFIED

Greetings,

I'm interested in knowing whether anyone has looked at using OpenID for
Federal government-based social software sites. I'm currently working on
implementing a wiki-based site for the US Department of Defense called
DoD Techipedia.  The external portion of this will allow interaction
between government officials and industry representatives.  In looking
at the larger issue, many people working these issues in government are
trying to work through the potential privacy impacts of keeping public
data on a government website.  It occurred to me that perhaps we should
be looking at using something like OpenID for managing the external
users to our systems.

The hope would be that if users manage their own personal data through
OpenID, the Federal Govt doesn't need to be responsible, or liable, for
it.  Am I on target here?  If so, what would be necessary to make this
happen?  Or more to the point, has anyone already addressed this issue?

Thanks in advance,

Best,

Noel Dickover
DoD CIO, IT Investments and Commercial Policy Directorate
Social Software and Emerging Technologies
703-601-4729x152
Noel.Dickover.ctr at osd.mil
 

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