- From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 18:09:33 +0200
- To: public-webid <public-webid@w3.org>
Around 2005 Microsoft announced its pretty cool Information Card concept with the hope that for example banks would adopt it. I told Microsoft folks early on that banks in the EU have already put their money on X.509 certificates but unfortunately they can't use the solution featured in Windows and IE. If you fix that, they may indeed jump on the Information Card bandwagon. Microsoft did neither listen to me nor checked with the banks what the problem could possibly be. Six years later they were forced withdrawing the entire Information Card concept from the market due to lack of adoption. It goes without saying that they haven't considered making X.509 client authentication useful for bank-users even in the most recent incarnations of Windows; they have rather opted for U2F like the competition. What I wanted to say with this is that "denial" is a human and natural reaction, but if the condition stays forever, it becomes a problem. In the WebID-TLS case the "defection" to U2F by all platform vendors except Apple and Mozilla indicates that it's time to "Kill Your Darlings" and move on. Anders
Received on Monday, 5 May 2014 16:10:03 UTC