You could do far less productive and entertaining things than spend the next 15 minutes viewing this presentation by Dick Hardt, CEO of Sxip. It's both a presentation tour de force as well as a brilliant overview of the digital identity space.
In Dick's parlance, our abortive efforts at Sprint were aiming to build "Identity 1.9". We wanted to create a more user-centric identity model, but with the carrier acting as a proxy for you. Not a pure and perfect end-to-end solution, but one which was technically feasible at the time and sellable internally.
UPDATE: I used to present this stuff to Sun and IBM and get black stares, because they were stuck in the enterprise-centric world of federated identity. We were talking about public identity, a different beast. My metaphor was "identity projection", rather than federation. Nice to see the wheels of history catching up with us.
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