20 October, 2006 - 4:11am

We're delighted to see recent reports regarding the Ontario Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian's active support of Kim Cameron's Seven Laws of identity. She believes that once a universal method to connect identity systems and ensure user privacy is developed, that there will be an “Identity Big Bang.” Progress is also being made with OpenID, with the Technorati announcement yesterday that bloggers will now be able to claim ownership of their blogs with OpenID credentials and that more work in support of OpenID is on the way.

Technorati's support is a great step forward for increasing adoption. However as Marc Canter and Eric Norlin note, single sign-on is not digital identity on the web. There's still a ways to go before one can easily and securely move data from anywhere to anywhere. Thus we're happy to be involved with and look forward to the upcoming release of OpenID 2.0.