Re: National Strategy for Trust Identities in Cyberspace

Yes people in the Identity Community have been part of the "industry  
experts" the White House consulted in the process of writing.
-Kaliya

On Jul 7, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Mischa Tuffield wrote:

> 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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