[OpenID] TransparencyCamp and OpenID (U)

[Chris Messina]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Brett McDowell <brett at projectliberty.org>wrote:

> ...The Identity Assurance Framework looks at how any particular credential
> service can achieve LOA 1 through LOA 4.  What we don't have is any analysis
> of what an OP could achieve with OpenID 2.0.  Knowing this will provide a
> clear gap analysis of what we have vs. what we need. We can base our
> deliberations on these hard facts.  I can only believe this will be more
> productive than... actually I don't see any alternative to this approach if
> we are serious about making progress.
>
> Next Steps?
>
> ...I would be happy to talk with them about co-hosting a kick-off event to
> drill into this issue as it relates to OpenID specifically.   I assume they
> will be interested.  They, like I, would like to see citizens be able to use
> whatever private sector credentials they "already have" to access government
> applications.  If those are OpenID's, then lets make sure those OpenID's are
> going to be acceptable to these federal Relying Parties (who knows, we might
> learn something that helps us win more RP adoption in other markets as
> well).
>
> Thoughts?
>

Sounds good to me! It would also be good to get in sync with a number of the
existing OpenID-in-government conversations underway.

We're not the first to bring this up or to consider the issues that exist
for government to adopt OpenID; but, of course we have a great deal to add
to that discussion and taking the approach as you described it sounds
prudent.
Chris

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