<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yes, let's definitely have an event like this and I'd be happy to help get it setup.<div><br></div><div>--David</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 13, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Chris Messina wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Brett McDowell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brett@projectliberty.org">brett@projectliberty.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>...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.</div> <div><br></div><div>Next Steps?</div><div><br></div><div>...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).</div> <div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sounds good to me! It would also be good to get in sync with a number of the existing OpenID-in-government conversations underway. </div> </div><div><br></div>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.<div> <br></div><div>Chris <br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Chris Messina<br>Citizen-Participant &<br> Open Web Advocate-at-Large<br><br><a href="http://factoryjoe.com">factoryjoe.com</a> # <a href="http://diso-project.org">diso-project.org</a><br> <a href="http://citizenagency.com">citizenagency.com</a> # <a href="http://vidoop.com">vidoop.com</a><br>This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private<br> </div> _______________________________________________<br>general mailing list<br><a href="mailto:general@openid.net">general@openid.net</a><br>http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>