Experts: Gov’t trusted Internet identities a long way off

The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace aims to set the benefits, overall strategy, goals and objectives of the government's plan to improve how users (and even devices) are authenticated onto the Internet. The plan, so far, calls for very limited government involvement in the development of the identity infrastructure. As it stands today, the government's role will be essentially promoting leadership, encouraging speed of deployment, and the use of certain identity solutions.