Andre has a great post that frames the identity zeitgeist.

Ancient History

• PKI
• Firewalls
• My stack vs. your stack
• Mooooaaannn

Mould

• Strong Authentication
• Federation & SSO
• blah, blah, blah

Old

• User-centric
• Attribute Sharing
• OpenID phishing
• yak, yak, yak

Bold

• Delegation
• Smart clients
• Protocol convergence
• Identity meets payments
• Just do it!

He has been in the business for 6 years. I thought my 3 years was a long time. The irony of it Mould and Old subjects is that it is still way early for all of those things beyond our circle - I had a conversation with a VC this past week and he said 'I know there is something going on here - but it is still way to early.' I hope that with the USA Today article that changes.