I'm skeptical that there's any such plan in place. This just doesn't seem to pass the smell test.

I dug a little deeper - the source of my link:

Obama's Internet Plan Sounds an Awful Lot Like a National Internet ID

It has a link to "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace" (same site), which is dead. Article was posted yesterday. But if I google "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace", I do get a lot of results. Here's one from the White House blog: [link]

Haven't read that yet, as I gotta get back to work.

eta: Some stuff from the White House blog:

The NSTIC, which is in response to one of the near term action items in the President’s Cyberspace Policy Review, calls for the creation of an online environment, or an Identity Ecosystem as we refer to it in the strategy, where individuals and organizations can complete online transactions with confidence, trusting the identities of each other and the identities of the infrastructure that the transaction runs on. For example, no longer should individuals have to remember an ever-expanding and potentially insecure list of usernames and passwords to login into various online services. Through the strategy we seek to enable a future where individuals can voluntarily choose to obtain a secure, interoperable, and privacy-enhancing credential (e.g., a smart identity card, a digital certificate on their cell phone, etc) from a variety of service providers – both public and private – to authenticate themselves online for different types of transactions (e.g., online banking, accessing electronic health records, sending email, etc.). Another key concept in the strategy is that the Identity Ecosystem is user-centric – that means you, as a user, will be able to have more control of the private information you use to authenticate yourself on-line, and generally will not have to reveal more than is necessary to do so.

I know nothing about non-Tivo DVRs.

Time Warner standard issue non-Tivo DVR. Thanks anyhow.

Through the strategy we seek to enable a future where individuals can voluntarily choose to obtain a secure, interoperable, and privacy-enhancing credential (e.g., a smart identity card, a digital certificate on their cell phone, etc) from a variety of service providers – both public and private – to authenticate themselves online for different types of transactions (e.g., online banking, accessing electronic health records, sending email, etc.).

Actually, that doesn't sound like a bad idea.

I think it's inevitable, though it may be further in the future than the current administration might like.

I might do it, if I were certain my days of almost-crime were entirely behind me. Hope remains.

My gut feeling is it'd just turn into a big mess. But if it works as it's supposed to, that would be cool.

It sounds like the identieeze card in Hitchhikers Guide.

I`m so sick of my wrong facing quotes on my phone. I know apos ' doesn`t work for everybody. But what if I use the directional quotes?
 
Like, what is this: ’ ? It should be a single right quote. And this: ‘ should be a single left quote. Is it?

To me they just look the same, but that matters less than the markup showing.

Like, what is this: ’ ? It should be a single right quote. And this: ‘ should be a single left quote. Is it?

Yes

Yeah, Liese, your posts always have curly quotes in them.