National Strategy for Trust Identities in Cyberspace

Hi All, 

Firstly, sorry for cross-posting, am including the foaf-protocol's mailing list for I believe there are lots of people looking at online identity and authentication related issues. 

I was reading an article [1] on the MIT technology review about how the US government are setting out plans to design/implement a national online identity service [2]. I was wondering whether anyone here was tracking the activity / involved with this endeavour? 

I say this for I do think there is a definite scope for the W3C to give input on this cause seemingly championed by the US government. Would be great if the concept of a WebID/foaf+ssl, i.e. a certificate based authentication, as at least considered/scrutinised by the task force. 

Regards, 

Mischa

[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/web/25727/
[2] http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf
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