OpenID today is in a position to be a universal identity for everyone
I'll repeat the answer I gave to that assertion when you first made it:
OpenID is not "identity" (and never will be). It is *a* technology
for *digital* identity. Identity is *already* universal; it doesn't
need our help to become so.
Grandiose schemes are usually impressive on paper, but putting them
into practice still requires a bit more than "Let's neglect steps 1
through x-1 and skip directly to PROFIT!!!". OpenID is still in the
burgeoning stages, very far from being in any position to provide
digital identity to *everyone*. (Some of that, to be fair, can't be
helped by OpenID.)
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, here.
At the end of the day, it is not us, but the user who wins. And we
should allow for the user to decide for himself ,whatever scheme he
would like to use.
It's not widely a matter of "letting" users decide, unfortunately;
the first step would have to be educating them about the differences
between their various options.
-Shade
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