[OpenID] TransparencyCamp and OpenID (U)

[Peter Williams]

The general category is websso.

Like any technology group, you will get endless [religious] arguments from some who will assert very dogmatically: no openid is not websso, but exists in quite distinct variant category all to itself. Within a competing technology camp (SAML), you will also get endless arguments that openid is not even single-signon (because it's simply too unassured "by design" to *ever* qualify as an sso scheme).

This is just vendors and marketers attempting to define their own categories, to structure markets for what suits them and their mindshare messaging. To the end user, it just amounts to the convenience of a single identity used multiple places, so you don't have to remember/change 100 passwords.

The nearest category you will get is "websso". Every other term is tied to some technology/vendor initiative or buzzword marketing campaign.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of Dickover, Noel, CTR, NII/DoD-CIO
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:04 PM
> To: david at sixapart.com; general at openid.net
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] TransparencyCamp and OpenID (U)
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> I just wanted to thank Chris and David and the rest of the OpenID folks
> who showed up to TransparencyCamp to talk about using OpenID in govt -
> this was the best session I attended out of an absolutely terrific
> weekend full of great sessions.  Hopefully we can get the option to use
> OpenID put in the Transparency and Open Govt directive.  A question I
> had, assuming somebody hasn't already asked it from you - in writing
> the Directive, how would we include the use of OpenID and OpenAuth?  We
> would want to specify the generalized category that those fit into, but
> would need to allow for potential competitor standards that might
> emerge in the future.
>
> So if you were writing this, what paragraph would you include that
> would specify things like OpenID in order to address the whole privacy
> issue?  And again, as we discussed at TransparencyCamp, that would
> involve two options for Citizens in participating on Federal sites - to
> either use external servers to register for govt sites, or a single
> govt server for all govt websites which might result in better level of
> service.  And also to have a plaec to authenticate Federal employees to
> external sites like Twitter, which would start to address the problem
> of others acting as if they were from govt accounts.
>
> v/r
> Noel Dickover
> DoD CIO, IT Investments and Commercial Policy Directorate Social
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of David Recordon
> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 1:18 PM
> To: general at openid.net
> Subject: [OpenID] TransparencyCamp and OpenID
>
> This weekend both Chris Messina and I went to TransparencyCamp in DC
> and talked to a bunch of people there about OpenID.  We shot a quick
> episode of TheSocialWeb.tv about it:
> http://www.thesocialweb.tv/blog/2009/03/transparency-camp.html
>
> --David
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