[#XWM-610908]: Re: [enum-wg] ENUM Adoption - Does a business case matter?

Antoin Verschuren wrote:
> 4. Identity management

[...]
>  
> The last one is often forgotten, but I predict this will be a big one in
> the time to come. It's OAUTH, OPENID, that sort of game. It's everyone
> that seeks a way to identify customers, customers need, or customers
> preferences to be able to give the customer what he wants the easy way. 

I've been talking about these ideas to various people over the last years
and we didn't come up with a good reason why this "online identity" should
be based on your phone number.

Pro:

* various mobile applications already use the phone number (for m-banking,
  premium rate services, ...)

* Easy to input on almost all user-interfaces

Contra:

* People want usernames/nicks, not numbers as identifiers.

* I would not want to link all my online identities together.

* regarding identity providers: everybody wants to be one, and only
  a few sites allow login using an identity hosted somewhere else.

* why use the DNS for this? With delegations down to the end-user?
  Somehow this sounds like a solution looking for a problem.

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All this reminds me a bit about .tel and why this might take off.
See http://lendl.priv.at/blog/2008/12/04/some-thoughts-on-tel/ for my take
on that. Some of the arguments also apply to using ENUM for ID-management.

/ol
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