Sounds familiar, maybe, but then again not exactly what I’m talking about. People familiar with OpenID know that the purpose was to create an “ID” to be used across the internet creating a one time account creation, but in reality what it has created is not much of anything or even more confusion about OpenID. Some of the largest sites on the web have created their own type of OpenID, but only to find out that there is no standard and most of these sites are competing against one another for data. Step into the year 2010…

What should happen in the year 2010 is a general committee to create a universal Open ID account system just like what ICANN does today but for personal information. The setup or guidelines would follow:

• The information entered is not owned by anyone but the original publisher and the information can only be access with the authentication from the original owner.
• Certificates can be used for transferring this data from one social network to another and no data is stored in more than one location. All this following a strict set up for how to handle and process users data.
• Social Networks will have optional settings for users who wish to not have their information stored on the system, such as FacebookFacebook or MySpaceMySpace while having a separate section owned privatized by those social networks.
• Users should have the option to update, edit, and or remove such material
• Anything outside basic necessity would fall under a private collection such as pictures or videos, which could be privatized.
• The information in these databases would be legit, just like registering a domain.
• Basic REST API calls and WhoIs searches

This is what the year 2010 should unfold to with the help of the cloud computing and some larger giants wanting to sort information (GoogleGoogle), this may become a reality. This is not to say there won’t be flaws when it’s first designed, but this would take your data back from services you currently use without worrying if the provider has decided to sell your information. This is new territory we’re getting into and unlike the rest of the United States (if you live here) which has been developed to an extent, the internet still remains cowboy country with little to no laws. And I’m not talking about security laws either, just a basic standard law for how to call certain applications or how to properly handle important information.

May the year 2010 will unfold into the beginning of Standard Web? Just maybe…

Stephen