It just states that a universal identity
management system should properly accommodate human
integration but gives no indications of the architectural layer at
which such integration should take place.
Consistent Experience Across Contexts
The unifying identity metasystem must guarantee its users
a simple, consistent experience while enabling separation
of contexts through multiple operators and technologies.
??”The Laws of Identity, Cameron, 2005
A universal identity
system should
make everything as
understandable and
incontrovertible as
it can be
108 Hints Toward a Solution
While using the Internet, we project our identities all the time;
we just don??™t always realize when we do it. In fact, many users
do not actually have a clear picture of what identities they have
and how they are used across the various services they make
use of. The current user experience in that space is so broken
that talking about consistency is dif?¬?cult. Users do not even
have a clear perception of what a security context is by now.
Think about it for a moment. The typical user will have a handful
of password credentials he uses and reuses (see the section
???Decline??? in Chapter 1).
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