Hi, Recently the United States Government released its The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/25/national-strategy-trusted-identities-cyberspace
This policy will likely provide the overarching identity policy and direction for the coming National Health Information Network. This strategy is an improvement over previous identity efforts by the US government, which have been stacked in favor of commercial-proprietary-top-down CA systems. i.e. ICAM http://www.idmanagement.gov/drilldown.cfm?action=icam ICAM essentially assumes that Identity Providers have a profit model, and as a result, sometimes make requirements that would be difficult for Open Source identity providers like the pgp-gpg network or CACert.org to work with. If possible I want them to avoid making the same mistake again. This proposal is in draft status, and you can read the current version here: http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf To comment on the proposal, please visit http://nstic.ideascale.com/ I have already posted a general defense of the peer-to-peer bottom up and open source model shared by CACert.org and the pgp-gpg community. You can find that here: http://bit.ly/bDEiBi Please vote on my idea and I would love to have some comments from this community. Especially if you live in the United States or have informed opinions about US policy. Thank you. -- Fred Trotter http://www.fredtrotter.com -- Fred Trotter http://www.fredtrotter.com
