Verisign convinces Yahoo and eBay to trust them - not Microsoft or Liberty Alliance
Dick Hardt is reporting that Verisign has announced their VIP identity system and that eBay and Yahoo (among others) are supporting it.
We (the free and open world - refusing to be locked up by anyone) support this notion of a platform and we’ll (hopefully Sxip Networks) will mesh into these folks - in ADDITION to supporting what Kim Cameron and MS have come up with.
It shouldn’t matter whether it’s a light-weight identity system - like OpenID or something more sophisticated like Sxip or Verisign’s VIP - we LIKE the idea of authenticated federated identity systems - just as long as it enables humans (that’s us) to control the movement of our data between systems and allows us to CONTROL our data.
We’ll (the open federated identity world) give Verisign a chance to prove that we can trust them - just like we’ve giving Microsoft a chance.
At the end of the day - this is a good sign - as now Yahoo and eBay accounts can be meshed into a free and open world.
February 14th, 2006 at 10:59 am
Marc,
Are you reading too much into this press release?
I think the key quote from the report is:
“VeriSign Identity Protection will provide a new means to protect consumer identities, combining multi-factor authentication, a shared network of information and intelligence and actionable fraud monitoring. With our partners, the VIP service will provide end-users with easy-to-purchase and easy-to-deploy multi-factor authentication,” said Judy Lin, executive vice president of VeriSign Security Services.
This seems more like an “integrated” payment scheme via Paypal than a system that “enables humans to control the movement of our data between systems and allows us to CONTROL our data.” In other words, I doubt eBay’s preparing to allow its users to export their reputations to Yahoo.
I hope I’m wrong and you’re right!
-Aldo
February 15th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
[…] In honor of Microsoft officialy announcing Infocards and Verisign announcing VIP - I think it’s time to be official about what we’re doing. Some see what Microsoft is doing as Hailstorm 2.0 (in a bad way) while I have a different point of view than that. […]