Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Phil Windley on government's proper role as an identity provider. Phil Windley reprises his Digital ID World talk in this excellent article which argues that "serving as the foundation for identity is a proper role for government." ... [Jon's Radio] Main link has a link to a short piece with additional additional ID managment links 11:24:57 AM

Gov & Digital ID Digital ID and Government. Digital ID World has published an article I wrote on Digital ID and eGovernment. The conclusion of the article is that governments need to be the foundational players in digital ID, just as they are in the physical world. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] Phillip Windley ably articulates the areas of Identity that interest "Government." His description of government as an entity may, however, mislead. I think it helps sort out how we use identity by stepping back and considering "government" as the governing structure for communities - be they water districts, school districts, towns, cities, counties, states or nations - communities which have evolved from everyone-knows-each-other to anonymous, loosely connected affiliations. Much of our identity structure has evolved in everyone-knows-each-other communities and have been evolving to less direct forms of identification/authentication/authorization for some time. I think the driver license began in counties, evolved to states and now is evolving again. More later.... 4:07:30 AM

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