[OpenID] owning one's own identity

[Melvin Carvalho]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Chris Messina<chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a concern of mine, long term.
> Initially, the OpenID providers are to be certified under the Open Trust
> Framework — but anyone can become certified once the framework is complete
> and certifiers are set up... how that might work for individuals owning
> their own identity is still TBD (depending on demand, I suppose).
> The challenge is finding the balance between cost, convenience, interest,
> scale, and user experience. We still have much work to do in order to
> determine how the government should best take advantage of technologies like
> OpenID, but this initial pilot should help us figure out how this should
> look — and what citizens want from the experience.
> As someone who owns/hosts his own OpenID, of course I want to be able to use
> that identity in government transactions — having to meet certain security
> requirements doesn't seem like an altogether bad idea — as a cost of doing
> it myself.

+1 for hosting your own OpenID

I would be happy to implement security recommendations, however not so
keen on paying a fee to be whitelisted.

> In any case, having public comments about this would be great — as we're
> clearly just getting started in this initiative.
> Chris
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Peter Williams <pwilliams at rapattoni.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> In other words, by embracing OpenID (and InfoCard), the government is
>> helping to further establish the value of owning one’s own identity, and of
>> having convenient, consistent, and privacy-protecting mechanisms in place to
>> enhance and enable participation.
>> [http://openid.net/2009/09/09/open-identity-for-the-government/]
>>
>>
>>
>> From what one can tell from reports about the current profile, the
>> government is doing the exact opposite of “helping to further establish the
>> value of owning one’s own identity”. It is specifically requiring that your
>> identity is managed (and legally owned) by certain (large) players. If
>> PayPal decides today to revoke access to my PayPal account, I cannot access
>> my .gov resources with the same identity I used yesterday – as the identity
>> signals are the property of - and under the exclusive control of -  PayPal,
>> not me.
>>
>>
>>
>> We seem to be heading back to the days when AT&T has total power of
>> whether you could or could not keep your phone number, if you switched
>> carrier.
>>
>>
>>
>> Why repeat the error?
>>
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