Where Worlds Collide Means to Ends.
Jamie Lewis: Ends and Means: Identity in Two Worlds.
Jamie is President of The Burton Group (which he founded with Craig Burton) and one of the world's leading authorities on enterprises, networks and related matters. [The Doc Searls Weblog]
The Net must accommodate more than one form of digital identity. Identity is contextual. It has many aspects. Customer-centrism is only one aspect of the digital identity infrastructure we need. So, it stands to reason that the identity infrastructure will be polycentric: flexible, dynamic and capable of pivoting and changing according to the context...
These different forms of identity: customer-centric, government-issued, and enterprise-managed, will develop in parallel, more or less...
Both the World of Ends and World of Means are right and inevitable. The gray area is where worlds collide, what Doc calls Our Identity, where means and ends will continually negotiate. The resulting friction and absence of trust may call for intermediaries that provide proxy value and a balance of control.
Eric Norlin is right that organic growth may prevail, particularly in the area of Our Identity. Identity is a competition of networks. Clay Shirky recently suggested the strength of the organic network growth of Earlynets over Permanets for physical wireless networks, which I believe applies to logical networks as well.
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