Comments on: On federated identity for UK government… http://idealgovernment.com/2005/05/on_federated_identity_for_uk_government/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Wed, 14 May 2014 08:35:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: Robin Wilton http://idealgovernment.com/2005/05/on_federated_identity_for_uk_government/comment-page-1/#comment-422 Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:39:45 +0000 http://on_federated_identity_for_uk_government#comment-422 Well, since you ask… and stepping neatly past AlanM’s vituperations about Sun, Liberty and Scott,
my impression of the LSE Identity Project is that (for an interim report) it goes a long way towards offering a good risk assessment of the ID Card proposal. I added it to my list of sources of misgivings about the proposal. The list of sources setting out how the ID Card proposal will be a success is… well, not very long, as far as I can see.

And Alan – I’m sure if you want to see real customer implementations of Liberty (whether by Sun or anyone else), that could be arranged. I agree, though, while the software (and some hardware to run it on) are necessary, they are far from sufficient. But who ever claimed otherwise?

]]> By: AlanM http://idealgovernment.com/2005/05/on_federated_identity_for_uk_government/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Fri, 27 May 2005 22:32:37 +0000 http://on_federated_identity_for_uk_government#comment-421 oh good lord! mcnealy didn’t have the balls to tell anyone about the hailstorm problem. at the time, he was too busy shovelling sun hardware out the factory doors to all the dotcom upstarts who were handing him fistfulls of money – his words, not mine. the first time i met him he was busy spinning a line about microsoft being “after our children” with the xbox; it’s true, he hates any idea that’s not his own. hailstorm was a bad idea at the beginning and a lot of people told microsoft that. liberty is probably just as bad. how long has that been vapourware now? sun will doubtless talk about shipping servers that are enabled but, so what? it’s not a hardware problem or a software one for that matter.

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