Web Identity 2.0 – now what?
I ran over www.identity20.com, www.sxip.com, www.sxipper.com and www.sxore.com all of the same family trying to implement global identity management for you on the web. Sxipper have also made a Firefox plugin so you can reuse your identity data easy.
The whole idea from a technial point of view is about having a personal "homesite" this site contains your data. The whole thing takes place when you visit a "membersite". The membersite contacts you provided homesite and gets the data available from your prompted selection.
The management of the data is done at your homesite, this way around your data is managed globally to all your services. Another issue is: what if the membersite requires additional data that is yet not created in your homesite profile? As far as I have understood, it is possible for membersites to add data to your homesite.
How about controlling different types of identities of the same person? This has been a issue that has been dealt with. In your homesite profile you can have multiple identities, say you as an employee, you as a privat person and so on.
It's pretty much complete all though to make it a successfull way of identifying persons we need to have more membersites that supports homesites, Open-ID.
I will sure follow the development of this kind of identity possibilities over almost any kind and type of web-connected profiling.
Try visit www.sxip.org for more information.