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OK This is my (first shot at a) definition of corporate-owned identity: 1. Company X provides authentication 2. Same company provides access to services that require afore mentioned authentication 3. Company X logs information about user's habits, acquisitions, email, calls, movies watched etc (I know this happens at present as well, just imagine this magnified by a sufficiently large number) 4. Company X uses this information to predict behaviors and tailor-make offers or what have you. This is how I suppose this new model of economy provides the possibility to make money, by hooking up smaller actors. Like a mall renting the space to the various shops. You still go to the mall. 5. More and more of activities that now require identification go digital over time, possibly through services similar to the ones I describe above. Nowadays, identification is made using government-controlled means. Tomorrow? Look at it from en ethical/legal perspective. Imagine where you would apply for a new passport were 1-5 to happen. Should you be expected to submit your application through a web-service? That your government subscribes to? Owns? I don't know, I just get a bit worried by someone wanting to own the channel through which people interact with others (here I do not mean the connection to the internet) as well as their means of asserting that they are who they claim. /Dimitris -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...] Skickat: den 1 juni 2001 18:42 Till: Dimitris Dimitriadis Kopia: XML DEV Ämne: RE: Copyrighting schemas, Hailstorm Please elaborate a little on your definition of "corpoate owned identity on the net". I can go tangential fast. :-) My view is that no company can both sell the software that handles the global registry and sell the service too. That isn't a technical issue but something like saying a gun manufacturer can't field it's own army. If the Hailstorm services depend on Microsoft owned servers, it's dead. They aren't allowed to be a troll beneath the bridge. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Dimitris Dimitriadis [mailto:dimitris.dimitriadis@i...] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:35 AM To: Bullard, Claude L (Len) Cc: XML DEV Subject: SV: Copyrighting schemas, Hailstorm While acknowledging your point, I'll allude to your first paragraph. I'd like to see a discussion on corporate-owned identity on the net, which I can't say I'm a big fan of. Your views? ------------------------------------------------------------------ The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l...
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