Under the trust frameworks being developed by the OIDF for US ICAM and others, 
there would be something similar to a CPS for openID providers who have been 
certified against a profile.

John B.
On 2009-12-10, at 10:30 AM, Thomas Hardjono wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm jumping in late to this discussion (apologies).
> 
> I was wondering of OpenID providers (or those wanting
> to be one) have plans to publish something equivalent
> to a PKI Certificate Practices Statement?
> Something like VeriSign's CPS statement:
> https://www.verisign.com/repository/cps/index.html
> 
> Most folks that I've met either don't know about CPS docs or
> belittle it as something bureaucratic. But its actually
> an all-important doc that Enterprise-CA customers
> of VeriSign take into serious consideration when
> signing-up for services.
> 
> In the Idp/OpenID context, I'm finding it kind of
> difficult to imagine signing-up
> to an IdP without something equivalent.
> The approach of "just trust us since we already have
> your credit score and other financial information"
> will not fly (and may become the failure point for
> rolling out IdP/OpenID services). Especially with the
> ongoing loss of customer data by various
> organizations without much penalties.
> 
> /thomas/
> 
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