eBay Stops Accepting Microsoft Passports
Steve Worona,
EDUCAUSE Blogs,
Dec 31, 2004
Discussion and analysis of Microsoft's retreat from Passport, covered here yesterday. The author suggests that a major beneficiary will be the Liberty Alliance, a consortium of 150 companies providing federated identity management. Maybe. But why would people rush out to get just another version of Passport? Remember, authentication is something that, for the most part, businesses want. There isn't a consumer demand for it. Until authentication becomes something people can use to add value for themselves, rather than something they have to use to add value for someone else, identity management will flounder.
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