Liberty Alliance Releases Specifications

Darren.Moffat writes "Has the time come for Passport to move over ? Technical Specs of the Liberty Alliance Project technology are now available from the website and were officially announced at the Burton Group conference today." We've done stories on the Liberty Alliance and digital identity before.

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What differentiates this from MS Passport?

[aaron_pet]

What makes this better than passport?

Is it just that it doesn't have MS in front of it?

Is it because it has the word "Liberty" in it?

Both have words relaiting to freedom: Pass and Liberty. Both have little to do with freedom.

Absoultue Annonominity or Full Disclosure must be present for freedom. If there is a monitoring agency that can restrict what it sees to itself, it is inherently flawed.

It must fully disclose everything, to everyone... And that is non trivial... But probably worth pursuing.

Untill then, We should not have a self accountable agency like these systems that base decisions on limited, selected for cheapness/support viewpoint information.

I propose that everyone give everyone else their MS passport passwords etc... make copies of fingerprints and retnas etc, and distribute them freely (An idea similar to one that Richard Stallman has promoted)