[Sigia-l] Maybe I'm just loopy this week

[Sean Lawrence]

But I got myself wondering why no one has developed a Reputation/Identity
Management System.  It would be a framework that would allow people to
create a single identity and then provide a method for obtaining or losing
reputation points from different sites like eBay, Amazon, Slashdot, Plastic,
and various blogs and forums that already track and score reputation.  I
realize there needs to be a business model built around something like this
but I'm surprised I haven't heard of anything like this and getting buy in
from large and small site alike would be diffcult, but it certainly seems
like a worthy effort.  And M$ Passport ain't it.

Anyone else ever think about something like this?

I know Cory Doctorow has with his ill-phrased Whuffie in books like "Down
and Out in the Magic Kingdom", but there has been no centralized or
distributed project geared towards such a dormant economy.  Everyone is
building there own constantly recreating the wheel right now.  Isn't it time
we start exploring markets of esteem? Won't somebody think of the children?

Thoughts, comments, rotten tomatoes?