Paul Tanner, is Principal Consultant at Virtual Technologies. He provides strategic business and IT consulting and manages client projects exploiting current and emerging technologies. Despite his extensive background in IT and standards, Paul has become poacher-turned-gamekeeper, preferring to approach all challenges from a commercial perspective and working on the client side of the business.

Paul graduated in Engineering and begun his career in electronics and software. He subsequently worked in consulting and with the Open Group and was a founding team member of Internet start-up beenz.com prior to staring his own consulting business. Recently, he has been involved in identity-related projects including work on the new e-passports.

Presentation
OpenID - Opportunity with Barriers

Everyone seems to agree that the web needs SSO, even if certain high risk applications have to be excluded. OpenID seems to fit the bill as a good enough solution but it seems to be hitting significant barriers to widespread uptake. These need to be addressed before momentum is lost.  The presentation will look at those barriers, propose some measures to overcome them and hopefully generate some discussion as to what the next steps should be.

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