If you have even a tiny bit of interest in digital identity then take a few minutes and watch Dick Hardt‘s Identity 2.0 talk at OSCON 2005. When I mentioned this to someone they responded with an interview of Kim Cameron about Identity Laws. After watching both of these I’ve come to one conclusion, doing digital identity “the right way” is going to be very, very, very HARD!
The drivers license comparison that Dick Hardt uses is a great example of how we’d like things to work. Kim does a good job of describing why these identity schemes need to be open.