This is an import/export tool for Google Sites. Using HTML Microformatsit generates an XHTML version of Sites content suitable for offlinebrowsing and simple HTTP hosting, which is also able to be losslesslyimported back into sites.
Data portability on the social web is enough of a conundrum that it has its own open workgroup,which, unfortunately, despite having good intentions, has not thus farmanaged to produce a consensus among its members (which include Google, Facebook and other big name social web services).[1]
Are you done? Are all of Google's products liberated?
No. While users can get data out of our products one way or another, we're about two thirds of the way through and we continue to work to make it easier to get data in and out of our products. [2]
Are you trying to start a consortium?
No, but we'd be thrilled if other companies followed our lead.[2]Are you creating new standards and formats for data?
No. We're working to use existing open standards formats wherever possible,and to document how we use those formats in a clear simple manner.[2]
Today there are over 500 government websites and about 1/3 of them require a user name and password. Users need to be able to register and save information and preferences on government websites the same way they do today with their favorite consumer sites, but without revealing any personally identifiable information to the government.[3]
The challenge is that supporting this kind of citizen interaction with government via the web means that identity needs to be solved. On the one hand you can’t just ask citizens to get a new user-name and password for all the websites across dozens of agencies that they log into. On the other you also can’t have one universal ID that the government issues to you and works across all government sites.Citizens need a way to interact with their government pseudononymously& in the future in verified ways.[6]
Later this morning at the Gov 2.0 Summit, Federal Government CIO Vivek Kundra
The OpenID Foundation
The government is looking to leverage industry based credentials that citizens already have to provide a scalable model for identity assurance across a broad range of citizen and business needs – doing this requires a trust framework to assess the trustworthiness of the electronic credentials. see Trust Framework Provider Adoption Process (TFPAP). A Trust Framework Provider is an organization that defines or adopts an online identity trust model involving one or more identity schemes,has it approved by an government or community such as ICAM,and certifies identity providers as compliant with that model. The OIDF and ICF will jointly serve as a TFP operating an Open Trust Framework as defined in their joint white paper, Open Trust Frameworks for Open Government.[3]
The draft process for selecting approved Trust Framework Providers that will then certify individual identity providers is titled "Trust Framework Provider Adoption Process for Levels of Assurance 1, 2, and non-PKI 3" and is available for download as a PDF.
That draft includes requirements that OpenID or related Info Card identities not be used to authenticate people who are physically present (it's just for remote online access), that they not be used to transmit activity data or anything else beyond what is specificallyrequested by a government agency and that there be measures taken tocontinue protecting personal information if the identity provider goesout of business.
Google, Yahoo, PayPal, AOL, VeriSign, Citi, Equifax, Acxiom, Privo and Wave Systems will be the ten organizations to act as digital identity providers using OpenID and Information Card technologies in the first pilot programs designed for the American public to engage in open government. Representatives from the companies had met with governmen tIT officials early August to engage in talks about the initiative,which ReadWriteWeb
Dr. Jack Jones, NIH CIO and Acting Director, CIT, notes, “As a world leader in science and research, NIH is pleased to participate in this next step for promoting collaboration among Assurance Level 1applications. Initially, the NIH Single Sign-on service will accept credentials as part of an “Open For Testing” phase, with full production expected within the next several weeks. At that time, OpenID credentials will join those currently in use from InCommon, the higher education identity management federation, as external credentials trusted by NIH.”[1]
Most likely users will be presented with an array of logos to click on,launching a new window to communicate just with the identity provider. Once a user proves who they are to the identity provider, that companywill then vouch for the user to the government site.[2]
OpenID board member and Facebook employee David Recordon explainedto ustonight that participating government sites are not allowed to passpersonal information about users from one site to another, even thoughwe'll be logging in with the same accounts. Instead, when weauthenticate ourselves with Google, Yahoo, Verisign or whoeverourIdentity Provider of choice is, that website will pass adifferent,unique URL to the government site we're logging in to.[2]
Don't worry, your doctor will not store your medical records underyourTwitter handle yet. The pilot program is stepping first into aphase of public discussion, it is participated in only by IdentityProviders that have undergone extensive scrutiny (Twitter's notincluded) and participants say that individual privacy is being treatedwith the utmost regard. If they can pull it off, these organizationscould makeusing the .gov web easier and more effective than it's everbeen before.[2]
The identity providers will keep track of all the unique URLs used toidentify us to different government sites and we'll just need toremember one log-in. That means you'll need to trust your identityprovider to keep your private information separated between agencies-it won't be up to the government sites themselves to do so.[2]
# by | 2009/09/10 23:58 | CardSpace | 트랙백 | 덧글(2)
Data portability as a feature -Those web-based services that make it as incredibly easy to get started with them by importing data (contacts, photos, etc) as they do toexport data to other services, will grow much more quickly than others.Thus, data portability will become a key feature in web-based service design. Technologies and standards such as Facebook Connect, Data Portability, OpenID and more will enable a world where applications can truly take advantage of user context to deliver more personalized experiences.
# by | 2009/01/23 21:29 | 기타 ID 동향 | 트랙백 | 덧글(2)
Three great technologies came to fruition this year to help you manage these complex interdependencies: OpenID, Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect.
# by | 2009/01/02 22:30 | CardSpace | 트랙백 | 덧글(4)
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