Today we do have hundreds of IDP's around and most of them just support user-name and password. There are a view real big players like Facebook and Google, which support authentication as a service. Which simplifies the life of the user but gives even more power to this big guys.
In addition to build a semantic web (intelligent internet) we need a new solution. It is time to change the world. We need to have an identity layer on the internet and give back the ownership of the users data to the real owner: the user. This new approach could now be done with Blockchain or a new identity layer which just support this basic need.
The idea is the same as with blockchain but with much less overhead.
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