The National
Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace aims to set the
benefits, overall strategy, goals and objectives of the government's
plan to improve how users (and even
devices) are authenticated onto the Internet. The plan, so far, calls
for very limited government involvement in the development
of the identity infrastructure. As it stands today, the government's
role will be essentially promoting leadership, encouraging
speed of deployment, and the use of certain identity solutions.