Eric has created a white paper on why digital ID matters and why PingID (the paper’s sponsor) gets it right. It’s well written and lays out the issues clearly. Nice job, Eric.

Eric certainly makes the case that a federated approach is preferable to a centralized one, but I remain unconvinced that the drawbacks of having any Net-wide digID are worth the benefits. But, Eric would say: Tough. DigID is happening, so you’d better pick the approach that’s more user-centered. Yeah, probably. But this remains one bandwagon I think I’d rather be dragged behind than hop on board. (“World of Ends” is interesting co-reading.)

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