This is a snippet from a two weeks old issue of the CBDi newsletter, I am subscribed to, that deals with Liberty Alliance. Sounds familiar.
"We suggest that the real user requirement is for privacy, flexibility, and particularly choice in the level of risk they are prepared to enter into. Real privacy would allow the user to have control over the expiry date of information they are making available to a supplier. Real flexibility would allow the user to have multiple authentication mechanisms with varying levels of guarantee, and for suppliers to request and rely on mechanisms appropriate to the transaction. But right now these requirements are being overridden in the interests of efficient, standardized commercial arrangements. And whilst the networked world sometimes seems a long way off, it's really only just round the corner, and it's your identity and privacy that's at risk."
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