WH Seeks Comment on Trusted ID Plan

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Date: June 25, 2010 8:09:04 PM EDT
> To: Farber Dave <dave () farber net>
> Subject: WH Seeks Comment on Trusted ID Plan

> ouse Seeks Comment on Trusted ID Plan
> Grant Gross Grant Gross – Fri Jun 25, 4:20 pm ET
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100625/tc_pcworld/whitehouseseekscommentontrustedidplan
>
> The White House is seeking comment on a draft plan for establishing a trusted identity system online, with the goal 
> of making Internet transactions more secure and convenient.
>
> Howard Schmidt, the White House cybersecurity coordinator and special assistant to President Barack Obama, released a 
> draft version of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace on Friday.
>
> The plan calls for the U.S. government to work with private companies to create an Identity Ecosystem, an online 
> environment "where individuals, organizations, services, and devices can trust each other because authoritative 
> sources establish and authenticate their digital identities."
>
> The Identity Ecosystem would allow Internet users to complete transactions with confidence, Schmidt said in a blog 
> post on WhiteHouse.gov.
>
> "No longer should individuals have to remember an ever-expanding and potentially insecure list of usernames and 
> passwords to login into various online services," he wrote. "Through the strategy we seek to enable a future where 
> individuals can voluntarily choose to obtain a secure, interoperable, and privacy-enhancing credential ... from a 
> variety of service providers -- both public and private -- to authenticate themselves online for different types of 
> transactions."
>
> The White House is seeking comments on the draft plan on a Web page at ideascale.com. A handful of people had already 
> commented on the plan by Friday afternoon.
>
> One person suggested the White House take advantage of existing open-source trusted ID efforts, including OpenID.
>
> Schmidt's office developed the draft of the trusted ID plan by working with other government agencies, business 
> leaders and privacy advocates, he said. A second poster called on the government to "leave privacy to the private 
> sector."
>
> "The current executive has been smothering the privacy and liberty of Americans even more than his predecessor, and 
> evading criticism by employing secrecy and rainbows," that poster wrote. "Americans should not trust the federal 
> government to have any goal other than the expansion of federal power."
>
> A third poster suggested that "you all go get a real job at McDonalds."
>
> The trusted ID plan is part of the Obama administrations Cyberspace Policy Review, released in May 2009.
>
> Grant Gross covers technology and telecom policy in the U.S. government for The IDG News Service. Follow Grant on 
> Twitter at GrantusG. Grant's e-mail address is grant_gross () idg com.



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