Comments on: Liberty Alliance is alive and kicking

Group's new president says the world is catching on to the need for sharing identity information securely.

[mh20932]

This will fail...

for exactly the same reason that Passport failed. Even if it can be done securely (which I doubt), users DO NOT WANT identity information to be shared across sites or among organizations. If online businesses try to force users to use this, they will lose business.

[privacychick]

you don't get it

the whole notion of liberty alliance is to be privacy friendly. today's online environment requires the sharing of way too much information with way too many people. liberty's approach is to minimize those issues and put control back in the end users' hands. doesn't that address your concern?

[lcromwell34289]

I agree, nobody wants this

Except maybe American Express and eBay and big companies like that.

[idbabe]

this will not fail if...

people recognize there are alternatives to the way idenityt and personal info is handled today. When people and businesses recognize that liberty alliance and federated id methods in general let individuals take at least some level of control back of their identity, and also demand it then it and the principals it is based on should succeed.

[Identi-girl]

Open actions are good actions

Liberty is making effort to be inclusive and reach out the the community to make the best forward progress in this space. Saying 'this will fail' is burying one's head in the sand. The OpenLiberty (http://www.openliberty.org/) announcement is evidence of that effort and we should all be sharing think space to push forward rather than trying to tear good efforts down.

get together people!

[mh20932]

The problem is...

...that this is not something that web users are asking for. It's something that's being pushed by commercial interests. Why do you think that Passport failed? Because the technology wasn't good enough, because people don't trust Microsoft, or because people fundamentally do not want an organization managing their online profile?