I think at some point we will move to something like a drivers license for the Internet - a government backed assertion that you are person X. A photo ID, a hash of that .png and meta data against a key pair (ie the key pair assigned to the person behind the desk at the DVLA)

I am guessing this is what a bunch of companies offering the "photo of you and your id" services are waiting for.

Which to me implies it should never be a proprietary solution - anyone know of a FOSS version of this out there? Anyone want to start one ?