<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Johannes, <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have no idea why you are saying Identity 2.0 is vendor specific. Lots of people are using it. Similar to Web 2.0, people have a general idea of what it is. Here are google results for the terms you used:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"user-centric identity" <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>17,200</DIV><DIV>"user-controlled identity" <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>167</DIV><DIV>"decentralized identity"<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>949</DIV><DIV>"grassroots identity"<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>147</DIV><DIV>"independent identity"<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>58,100</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"Identity 2.0" <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>136,000</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>As you can see, "Identity 2.0" is referenced more often then all the terms you list combined.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-- Dick</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 28-Feb-06, at 7:37 PM, Johannes Ernst wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Petra,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I don't think there is such a thing as "Identity 2.0" -- at least not in the sense that everybody in this industry uses the term, or that there is any kind of agreement on its meaning.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It's great that Dick Hardt responded to your question, because I believe he is the originator of the phrase, but he might have wanted to qualify his response with "this is what I think it means, or what I meant when I created the term".</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The much more broadly used, and far less vendor-specific terms include:</DIV><DIV> - user-controlled, or user-centric identity</DIV><DIV> - decentralized identity</DIV><DIV> - grassroots identity</DIV><DIV> - "independent" identity</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Johannes.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 28, 2006, at 13:25, Petra Sütterlin wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT size="2"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">Hello to everybody,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "></SPAN><DIV dir="ltr"><DIV dir="ltr" style="FONT: 10pt arial; font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><FONT size="2"></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV dir="ltr" style="FONT: 10pt arial; font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Many thanks for the immediate answer and the links. I'm surprised how good the subject already has been presentated. I did not expect it like this.</SPAN></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial"></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">What I am still looking for is more general information about ID2.0 because I will probably have to answer the following questions:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">-What is the difference between ID 1.0 and ID 2.0 ?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">-If e-bay and amazon also applied the ID 2.0 system, will I still have to submit my e-mail and postadress? And in this case I just don't have to fill in password and Username?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">Maybe the answers are already hidden in the links, but I did not find them, yet.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial"></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">Best regards and happy greetings from germany</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">Petra Sütterlin</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">Philognosie</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">My-Lands</SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Johannes Ernst</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NetMesh Inc.</DIV><SPAN><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><DIV><lid.gif></DIV></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN> </SPAN><A href="http://netmesh.info/jernst">http://netmesh.info/jernst</A><DIV><BR><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </SPAN></DIV><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>