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So let's try to separate the various aspects: Identity (let's keep this constant for argument's sake) Identification: when done digitally (through name/pw, retinal scans, odour control, whatever, or in other words, assertion of identification) Access to identification (keeping the right name/pw pairs stored away somewhere) "Trusted identification franschising" (I trust so-and-so to keep this information on their systems, happens everyday everywhere nowadays) Identification as a means of using web-based services (on a much larger scale than now, possibly even for things we up to now use government controlled frameworks) Possibility of mis-use of indentification (and to keep to the vocabulary introduced above, mis-use of means of identification assertion done by trusted identification franchising parties). And this is where it gets interesting. So, given that I trust a company, or service provider, to the degree where I use them as a primary source of access to the service-net, I need to rely on their good judgment not to make things in an inappropriate way. One argument for not having to separate the company that maintains identification info from the company that provides services, is that prudence, among other things, would prevent them from misuse. As I am notorioulsy supsicious in nature, however, I would't be happy enough with that. I like the good old public government departments and want them to keep being the main validator of my identification claims (using their approved identification cards, driver's licenses, passports, whatever). So one idea could be to demand that government agencies all over the world cooperate in creating some kind of identity/identification system _to which service providers_ are gien access. That would take care of the trust part (at least for me). However, no such mechanism exists. And something tells me that any system with similar functionality proposed by some other actor (or actors) would be acceptable by the public in large, due to courage, ignorance, fear, or indifference. I don't have a problem with courageous people lending their means of identification to others. That's their problem. Ignorance is also easy to deal with. They'll do it anyway, so I'll see to that they do it the right way (figurative speech, mind you). Doing it using fear, we've seen many examples of (at least in my part of the world where most countries did their utmost to erase a social order on the grounds that it was non-democratic, instigated fear in it's citizens and other reasons); obviously we should try to refrain from proposing similar ways now. Indifference is the scary aspect. Or I'm just a one of a kind person who does not prefer being able to buy things 0.000666 percent cheaper to knowing why I suddenly get these nice offers and how it is that my fridge always manages to surprise me by containing exaclty what I feel like etaing (which, of course, is what I ate last week the same time having watched a similar movie). There are a series of political aspects to making information available and freely accessible. There are more aspects to information exchange than choosing platform on which to do it and coding away. Code is the easy part. Knowing why is the tough part, and I hope I'm not the only person who is interested in duscussing this. Also, you'll excuse me for not tying it too closely to technical issues, to which we can migrate anytime. The reason is that XML, among other technologies, makes these things possible to begin with, and that's why I feel it's important to evaluate the various aspects. /Dimitris -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@p...] Skickat: den 2 juni 2001 15:43 Till: Dimitris Dimitriadis Ämne: Re: Copyrighting schemas, Hailstorm Ah, but speaking to the peanut gallery (as we say over here :) surely not everyone picked up on that second "f"! Agreed, this is a tough problem. How does one manage a public resource? I'm not a believer in privatizing everything, there's too little accountability that way. Agreed that it's not an easy problem. - Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dimitris Dimitriadis" <dimitris.dimitriadis@i...> To: "'David Brownell'" <david-b@p...>; "Dimitris Dimitriadis" <dimitris.dimitriadis@i...> Cc: "XML DEV" <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 6:32 AM Subject: SV: Copyrighting schemas, Hailstorm Thanks, I know what 'iff' translates to. In any case, the point I'm trying to raise is that I'm not sure we will be able to keep the river helthy, or at least it won't be as easy as 1 2 3 /Dimitris -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@p...] Skickat: den 2 juni 2001 00:03 Till: Dimitris Dimitriadis Kopia: XML DEV Ämne: Re: Copyrighting schemas, Hailstorm > What's your view on if it were a public system? "iff" == "if and only if" ... public systems wouldn't have owners per se, except sometimes the custodial interest of a government. That's not an "ownership" interest, and it's one where decisions must be attuned to "seventh generation" timeframes as well as explicitly valuing diversity. That means among other things no biases towards bigger fish and against smaller ones; it's one river that everyone shares, and keeps healthy. > Btw, that was a significantly more concise and > bandwith-saving answer than I gave. It's a time-budgeting issue ... :) - Dave -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@p...] Skickat: den 1 juni 2001 22:07 Till: Bullard, Claude L (Len); Dimitris Dimitriadis Kopia: XML DEV Ämne: Re: Copyrighting schemas, Hailstorm > But the original question is if the means is > system wide, can they assert ownership of means. "Can" or "should"? Iff it's a private system, there would be no problem in either sense ...
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