How do we translate the power of identity technologies to the consumer web?

I asked Chris Messina to articulate from an open stack/DiSo perspective the  emerging key themes/topics interest for IIW. Here is what he had to say:

I think Dave Recordon’s recent post on O’Reilly Radar about “anatomy of connect” is interesting.

From the DiSo [Distributed Social Network Project] perspective, I’d like to see a broader narrative focused on thinking of identity, to some degree, as a given. That is, single sign-on is not enough, as evidenced by Facebook. We need to get past the period where we’re stagnating because there’s no valuable data attached to one’s OpenID.

If we really want to empower individuals and give them leverage over service providers (the VRM model), people actually need to have the ability to move their personal/public/private data around, and that means moving data interop formats forward.

Not just that, but from an ecosystem perspective, we do have to keep in mind what in it’s for consumers and relying parties. We have to solve this problem of having lots of providers and not enough relying parties. We also need to develop clear guidelines on the roles and responsibilities of both, and think about how we can help people evaluate different providers so they can make an informed choice when it comes to hosting their identity.

In other words, how do we translate the power of identity technologies to the consumer web?

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