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[Dick Hardt]

On 2011-07-20, at 11:23 AM, SitG Admin wrote:

>> I think that is one of the key aspects of user-centricity. The user is making choices on which attributes to share. The user is determining "who" she wants to be in a given RP context.
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> I will echo Johannes' suggestion that we should establish a list of viable features for an internet identity system; previously I thought that "user-centric" was simple enough (as a term), but maybe if we separate the technical definitions from the human-friendly names for them, our agreement on what to do will not be confused by differences in what the names for all these features *mean*.

We would first need to establish a list of agreed goals of an identity system, otherwise we will argue on the features without a yardstick. Unfortunately, agreeing on goals has yet to happen.

Personally, I think that the identity community is going to wonder lost in the woods for a couple years until there is a consensus for achieving goals that are NOT met by Facebook or Twitter or Google.