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Tuesday, December 07, 2004 |
The Semantic Web, Digital Identity, and
Internet Governance. Some observations on digital identity. I agree
with this bit: "having spent more hours than I care to
admit poring over specs and architecture diagrams from the
Passport, Shibboleth, Liberty, and WS-Federation projects,
I suspect (as does Doc Searls) that some other identity
standard will prevail." But what? SxIP?
Identity
Commons? That we would have to choose one of
these indicates a flaw. That we would have to pay money to
have an identity indicates another. I've thought about this
too. And it seems to me that, in the end, I will need to
have something of mine (that I control,
that only I can use) that vouches for my identity. If I
have to depend on some central server - well, that's not
the answer. because Jon Udell is right - if it has to be
governed, we haven't done it right. By
Jon Udell, Jon Udell's Weblog, December 7, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
10:38:14 PM Google It!.
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The semantic web, digital identity, and Internet governance.
Consider Eliyon, a company that's gathered public information about
more than 22 million people to support sales, recruiting, and other
applications. As it turns out, I am several of those people. In
addition to my current title, InfoWorld Test Center lead analyst, I show up as executive editor of Byte Magazine and contributor to Linux Magazine.
And while those were once accurate descriptions of me, I have never
been a member of Blue Titan's board of advisors, and I am not the
inventor of RSS.
It's true I could register with the site, coalesce my correct
identities, and purge the wrong ones. But authenticating with a credit
card in order to update a profile that Eliyon owns is a nonstarter for
me. Back in June, on my weblog,
I suggested the alternative that would suit me: I'll maintain my own
profile on the Web and syndicate my data to anyone who needs it.
Semantic Web naysayers think people and organizations can't be
bothered to assert machine-readable facts about themselves. And, today,
that is undoubtedly true. But when others assert facts about you -- as
they increasingly will -- the tide could begin to turn. Individual acts
of self-defense may ultimately combine to bootstrap the semantic Web.
[Full story at InfoWorld.com]
... [Jon's Radio]
9:35:33 AM Google It!.
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Video Feeds Follow Podcasting.
Just as people currently use newsreaders to read syndicated text from
blogs and news sites, a few hackers are creating applications that let
users view syndicated video feeds. Think of it as TiVocasting. By
Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News]
9:25:19 AM Google It!.
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