OpenID = Internet Identity ?
posted at: 7:27 am on Mon 12th Mar 2007 , filed under: Identity

Everyone is talking about OpenID and Internet Identity is the same vein - not sure about that. Internet Identity is a heck a lot more then your username and password. It is your name, your address, what you like, how you look like, what you do ?

Are you the same person that is called (insert openid name) on this website and (insert openid name)  on that website ?

What OpenID provides is a common username/password base that you as a user controls. You can change the password one time and it changed everywhere. You can change the username and it changed everywhere.

*Still*, you see that as you go to these OpenID-enabled websites, although you get to login with your OpenID, all of them want to capture your true identity information for their own databases: your name, your email address, your address, your title…etc. — So they can spam me later ? and sell me information ?

OpenID is not going to solve that problem. It is not designed to solve that problem.

I-names, on the other hand, will go a bit farther. You setup universal URIs and give them out.

You can change then when you want to, to what you want.

I-names should also come with profiles. My default profile would be filled up “internet-ready” identity information. However, if I want to use the i-name for my banks, I would want to give (or they require)  some of my real info - in which case, I need to setup a different profile ? (may be the user-defined tags in XRI will come to my rescue..)

XRI and XDI does want the i-names to become universal and even get accepted by banks etc, right ?

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