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Stephen Downes

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Some observations on digital identity. I agree with this bit: "having spent more hours than I care to admit poring over specs and architecture diagrams from the Passport, Shibboleth, Liberty, and WS-Federation projects, I suspect (as does Doc Searls) that some other identity standard will prevail." But what? SxIP? Identity Commons? That we would have to choose one of these indicates a flaw. That we would have to pay money to have an identity indicates another. I've thought about this too. And it seems to me that, in the end, I will need to have something of mine (that I control, that only I can use) that vouches for my identity. If I have to depend on some central server - well, that's not the answer. because Jon Udell is right - if it has to be governed, we haven't done it right.

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