The idea of the OpenIdentity standard is to maintain our own, protected database of people ‘pointers’ – which will in turn point to specific locations throughout the web – which may house an end-user’s resume, medical records or blog/web site. All access to these pointers and information will be strictly controlled, allowing each individual to decide who gets access to what.
So this is not about setting up some centralized database. This is about creating a ‘proxy’ server for people – a redirect server, which will keep track of the smallest amount of information possible about you – and simply point to where all the real data is…. The end-user/human can then completely control who sees what. New kinds of tools, services and applications can be built around this sort of standard.
Having conversed with Marc about tools I know how passionate he is about things and Identity is no exception. I love the ideas being presented here and wish I could help out more, however I'm in one of those big Comps (well not that big), don't have any money and am not technically savvy enough to code to this level.
However sign me up for an account :0
Posted by Paul Goodison at July 17, 2003 10:03 AM | TrackBack