That's an interesting concept, and a position which may or may
not fit well within the existing Kantara vision...
One potential issue is that the approach you describe may not
translate well, either to implementations outside the US (for
instance, where you describe the infrastructure being "created
with government resources"), or to implementations which need to
span borders in order to function (operationall or
commercially).
In some ways, your description of a single, worldwide
infrastructure meeting the full spectrum of political, social,
commercial and financial aims reminds me of some of the early
discussions of "Circles of Trust". Those discussions turned out,
in the fullness of time, to be useful in understanding the
fundamental concepts and building blocks of federated systems,
but not the basis of a single architectural blueprint for all
use-cases.
Yrs.,
Robin
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:47 -0600, "Michael Duffy"
wrote:
Just to be clear, the Institutional Web of Trust may not be a
product.
Our vision is that the identity infrastructure and services would
be one corporation and the financial/marketing infrastructure and
services would be another. The identity infrastructure will be
created with government resources and be managed to a great
extent as a public trust. Even though we have pending patents on
this infrastructure and processes, the anti-trust considerations
will be significant. We will have a monopoly on identity
authentication and we expect significant government oversight of
that monopoly.
Robin Wilton
Director, Future Identity
Director of Privacy and Public Policy, Liberty Alliance
www.futureidentity.eu
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