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Authentication and Identification

Stephen Downes has written a few articles on a subject that most of us rarely think about...but which will impact us all: Authentication and Indentification mIDm - Self-Identification the World Wide Web. The intent is "...to establish a regime where a person's own declaration is the primary source of their identity, their own identity server; they do not need to depend on a proxy (such as a university registration, employment in a corporation, subscription to an internet service provider, or whatever)." As more and more websites move to user-registration (currently a major trend with newsites), an approach is needed that allows the website to access some of the information they want...and give the end user the ability to identify themselves (and minimize the headaches of authenticating at each new site).