We attended the latest Internet Identity Workshop last week, held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The self-described heart of the workshop “is a practical idealism in working towards the shared vision of a decentralized, user-oriented identity layer for the Internet.”
If that sounds geeky, well, it was. But we can be pretty geeky ourselves, and we enjoyed mingling with some of the great engineering minds who are creating and evangelizing what may be the Web’s future identity infrastructure.
One of our goals in attending the IIW was to determine what emerging standards, such as OpenID, CardSpace, SAML, or OAuth, Honesty Online should be supporting. Our experience at IIW didn’t change our answer, which is: none — yet. Two things might change this answer. One, if we see widespread adoption by end-users of a standards-based identity infrastructure for the Internet. Two — if we hear from our partner sites (current or potential) that you want us to implement an OAuth API, or OpenID attribute exchange, or some other standard that you have adopted yourselves.
Incidentally, if you’re in the Mountain View area, I recommend a stop at the Computer History Museum. Their “Visible Storage” display of classic computers and computer artifacts is not to be missed.
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