22 May, 2006 - 2:56pm

Aldo Castañeda interviews Netmesh's Johannes Ernst, Sxip's founder and CEO Dick Hardt and Nokia's John Kemp in this 30 minute podcast on: what user-centrism means, what they foresee for digital identity in 20 years, and their reflections on the recent Internet Identity Workshop.

The panelists concurred that the biggest trend they're seeing now and into the future is the movement from doing activities in the real or offline world to the virtual or online world. They discussed the interest in a possible Open Source implementation of Microsoft's Infocard and problems with the current Infocard architecture in its domain-centric approach to IdM. This led to a discussion of the benefits of a user-centric vs domain-centric approach to digital identity, which is fully distributed, Internet-scalable, and has signifcant privacy advantages.