<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Taking the medical example you just
mentioned - wouldn't it be sensible if the National provider Id enumerator
(see https://nppes.cms.hhs.gov/NPPES/Welcome.do) was an OpenId identity
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Of course anything sensible like this
will never happen - it's health care :-)</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: general-bounces@openid.net</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>To apply Bob Blakley's terminology, see http://netmesh.info/jernst/
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Digital_Identity/limits-of-owning-identity.html<br>
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what you are asking for is to augment identity information with <br>
reputation information, in this case an individual's degree (a kind <br>
of reputation using the above terminology) from a reputation source <br>
(e.g. the college where they got the degree).<br>
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The technical solution to this can be rather straightforward, as all <br>
that needs to be found out about is a boolean value or similar ("has
<br>
degree", "does not have degree"). The much harder problem
is an <br>
adoption problem: how does one get all, say, medical schools to make <br>
assertions like that in electronic form?<br>
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But on the other question -- I (and NetMesh) are interested in this <br>
subject.<br>
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On Feb 1, 2007, at 10:40, Roland Sassen (using mozilla) wrote:<br>
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> The Wikipedia suffers from anonymous people adding nonsense. To make
a<br>
> better<br>
> Wikipedia Larry Sanger, co founder of Wikipedia, made Citizendium.
<br>
> Anonymity<br>
> is banned here. Citizendium is about to "hit the streets"<br>
> I posted this to the Citizendium mailing list:<br>
><br>
> "To login to Citizendium people chose a user name and a password.
A <br>
> new<br>
> protocol,<br>
> OpenID, allows users to have one user name / password combination,
and<br>
> login to<br>
> all OpenID enabled sites with this combination. And this username<br>
> /password combination<br>
> can be exchanged by a so called URL or web-address (like <br>
> www.thinsia.com)<br>
> This is very user-friendly.<br>
> So I suggest to enable OpenID to the Citizendium site!<br>
> For more information have a look at the OpenID site here<br>
> <http://www.openid.net>, or on the Open ID wiki<br>
> <http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page><br>
> I blogged about it here<br>
> <http://www.thinsia.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry070118-135301>
and<br>
> OpenID in the press is here <http://blogs.zdnet.com/digitalID/?p=78>
.<br>
><br>
> Roland Sassen "<br>
><br>
> Mike Johnson answered:<br>
><br>
> " Hi Roland,<br>
><br>
> I'm Mike Johnson from the Citizendium Executive Committee- thanks
for<br>
> the email about OpenID. It's certainly on our radar, but our needs
<br>
> are a<br>
> little different than those of most organizations.<br>
><br>
> In short, we'd like a distributed identification system to provide
<br>
> users<br>
> with a common login across sites (as OpenID does), but, since we also<br>
> need to know people have the PhDs or MDs they say they do, we'd <br>
> like one<br>
> that also has the ability to actually "authenticate" who
users are in<br>
> the real world against some trustworthy authority.<br>
><br>
> I suspect that OpenID could do such a thing, by allowing sites like<br>
> Citizendium to define other sites that we trust to verify that <br>
> users are<br>
> who they say they are in the real world. However, in my (somewhat<br>
> limited) research on OpenID, I've never heard of this happening.<br>
><br>
> It's not absolutely necessary, but if something like this could be
set<br>
> up it would be a large incentive for us to adopt OpenID. Your <br>
> thoughts?<br>
> Know who'd be the best person to ask about this?<br>
><br>
> Best,<br>
> Mike"<br>
><br>
> Three questions:<br>
> 1 how can this be done<br>
> 2 who would like to be "the best person to ask about this?<br>
> 3 is the OpenID community interested at all in being used, in the
<br>
> world,<br>
> and are there idea?s about<br>
> how to make initial contacts (in a more proper way as I did)?<br>
><br>
> I do see some more opportunities!<br>
> cheers, Roland Sassen<br>
><br>
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