[OpenID] owning one's own identity

[Johannes Ernst]

Opening up the list of accepted IdPs has some weird consequences when  
interacting with the government (as opposed to others)

E.g.:

What about an IdP in Russia or China? Would the US government accept  
identities asserted by an entity outside of the country? What about  
Iran? Before the revolution? And then what?
What about a multi-national headquartered, in, say, New York? That  
serves some of its identities from a data center in Mexico? If it now  
moved headquarters to Bermuda, what then? What if it was acquired by a  
Chinese company with strong ties to the Chinese government?


Full post:
http://netmesh.info/jernst/big_picture/openid-and-government

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