Comments on: A New Model for ID Cards http://cro.alienpants.com/index.php/2006/02/06/a-new-model-for-id-cards/ general things Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:24:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Robin Wilton http://cro.alienpants.com/index.php/2006/02/06/a-new-model-for-id-cards/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Robin Wilton Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:40:34 +0000 http://cro.alienpants.com/?p=144#comment-186 Tom, I think that's a good and perceptive analysis. In a way, it reflects some of what I was saying a while ago, that people already have multiple credentials which could be federated in order to build up an increasingly trustworthy pattern of evidence in support of identity assertions. http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/racingsnake?anchor=uk_parliamentary_report_on_id that said, I think we will find your idea, for all its merits, falls foul of policy/procedural inflexibility... I was frustrated for years by the Government Gateway's refusal to acknowledge, for instance, that my high-trust Thawte certificate was as good a way to identify me as their 'approved' issuers' certs. Tom, I think that’s a good and perceptive analysis. In a way, it reflects some of what I was saying a while ago, that people already have multiple credentials which could be federated in order to build up an increasingly trustworthy pattern of evidence in support of identity assertions.

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/racingsnake?anchor=uk_parliamentary_report_on_id

that said, I think we will find your idea, for all its merits, falls foul of policy/procedural inflexibility…
I was frustrated for years by the Government Gateway’s refusal to acknowledge, for instance, that my high-trust Thawte certificate was as good a way to identify me as their ‘approved’ issuers’ certs.

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