===OpenID for the Government, led by Chris Messina. (@chrismessina, http://factoryjoe.com)===
==== OpenID provides: ====
  1.  Authentication:
OpenID as your identity's credit card on the web.  
Terms: Identity Providers = IDPs; Relying Parties = RPs;  
  2. Authorization:
  Current status quo: Individual email address, different secrets between individual website providers. (If hacked, 

someone can come in who knows 1 secret that attaches to a public identity, and try that secret all sorts of other 

places. Sometimes, it works.) 

OpenID's structure. 
Me -> Relying party -> IDP (yes/no) -> RP
Direct connection between IDP and yourself. IDP can rely on anything, secure tokens, biometrics, something you 
know.

 (Paypal is a good model for how OpenID works, but as an e-commerce setting.) 

==== 
Privacy: ====
 
 Allows for 
  - Pseudonymity
  - Anonymity 
  - Directed Identity - obscured personal identity, but can be correlated between sites for reputation management. 

=== Biggest issue with OpenID: ===
 
Cashing checks to moving towards a credit card economy, the credit card readers have to be installed everywhere. 

What happens when an identity provider goes out of business? 
An argument for delegation.
=== 
Places that provide OpenID management: ===
 
Nombray.com - Agree2.com - Claimid.org - danddyid.org - chi.mp -