Interoperable e-ID
January 30th, 2009
ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) has just launched a report on the interoperability of electronic ID management systems. The EU’s vision is that all European governments, citizens and businesses should be able to interact electronically. By the end of 2009 the Services Directive requires member states to have put in place single points of electronic contact allowing service providers to offer their services and complete formalities online.
In the medium term, eID will be one of the key drivers of the future Internet — contributing towards, as Microsoft Chief Identity Architect Kim Cameron puts it, a new identity and authorisation layer for the network.