Re: Openbadges and Mozilla Persona

On 31 December 2015 at 23:29, Fabio Barone <holon.earth@gmail.com> wrote:

> I apologize especially for the Web-Payments group for this post, as it is
> not strictly related to web payments, but mentions a technology which has
> been discussed in the group.
>
> I would like to write a project proposal for a city municipality which
> would promote self-directed learning and citizen science.
>
> It is quite ambitious and may never take off.
>
> The idea would be heavily based on Openbadges [1].
>
> According to the site, Openbadges uses Mozilla Persona.
> I think to remember that Mozilla Persona has been heavily discussed in
> this group, and I also think to remember that there were some rumors
> circulating of a possible demise.
>
> I searched the web and found contradictory information.
> What do people here think about using Mozilla Persona for identification
> today?
>
> Ideally I would like to propose an identification system run by the city
> itself, and not by Mozilla (there may be privacy and legal issues). This
> would probably mean having to run Mozilla Persona through the city's IT
> infrastructure, which seems to be possible.
>
> Nevertheless based on the rumors I would like to know if it's wise to
> build on that. I could very well think of some custom identification system
> which could be linked to Openbadges.
>

Hi Fabio, very interesting topic!  Just before going into details have you
looked at the work in the open credentials community, for example:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ba-standard/TUbg_ok67yo


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> [1] http://openbadges.org
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