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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Greetings,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm interested in knowing whether anyone has looked at using OpenID for Federal government-based social software sites. I'm currently working on implementing a wiki-based site for the US Department of Defense called DoD Techipedia. The external portion of this will allow interaction between government officials and industry representatives. In looking at the larger issue, many people working these issues in government are trying to work through the potential privacy impacts of keeping public data on a government website. It occurred to me that perhaps we should be looking at using something like OpenID for managing the external users to our systems.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The hope would be that if users manage their own personal data through OpenID, the Federal Govt doesn't need to be responsible, or liable, for it. Am I on target here? If so, what would be necessary to make this happen? Or more to the point, has anyone already addressed this issue?</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks in advance,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Best,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Noel Dickover</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">DoD CIO, IT Investments and Commercial Policy Directorate</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Social Software and Emerging Technologies</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">703-601-4729x152</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Noel.Dickover.ctr@osd.mil</FONT>
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