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October 17, 2003
DIDW: Doc Searls Endnote
There's now a tradition that Doc closes out Digital ID World. Its a good conference strategy--I stuck around to hear Doc even though the desire to get into the sky and home is pretty strong. I'm glad I did. I can't possibly do justice to a Doc Searl's presentation, but here's some thoughts I had while I was listening.
Doc is speaking on the topic of "Myidentity, Ouridentity, Theiridentity," Andre's three tier hierarchy of identity domains and tying it into ClueTrain ideas. While he's been here, he created a vocabulary of identity buzzwords for his Buzzphraser application. Here's some identity phrases it created for me:
- Properly Concerned Authorization Platform
- Eventually Well-integrated ID APIs
- Independently Hardened Disclosure Quagmire
- Fiduciarily Influential Identifier Platform
- Eventually Several Burden Tree
- Inherently Productive Dispute Functionalities
- Properly Related Access Proliferation
I'll be using this frequently in my consulting practice!
Doc talks about how our relationships with the tier-2 identity owners are very narrow. For example, I have a very narrow identity relationship with my credit card company. He shows the membership of Liberty Alliance and says its "scary." Does federated identity get us to broad, rich relationships?
What do we do with networked customers? We embrace if we're big, we enable if we're small. The answer is easy: think about what customers want:
- Anytime
- Anywhere
- In the networked world
Wlcome relationships initiated by the customer. Let customers link to each other. Let suppliers link to each other. Can RSS and SMS help here? Imagine if by some really simple syndicated method we could express our desires and feedback to companies in personalized way. As people have new ways to express demand, mass advertising could die due to the inherent inefficiencies.
Google advertising is an example of this kind of personalized demand and supply. Google needs competition for our attention. Don't boil the ocean---just do some simple things.
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Salt Lake County Recorder Web Site Get and Public Access
eGovernment is largely about public access to information. What does that say, then about making web sites as widely accessible as you possible can? I think there eGovernment Web sites have an obligation to be as accecssible as possible. In this category, I have to give the Salt Lake County Recorder's Office a grade of "F". Here's what I saw when I went to their Web site:
I sympathize with web site developers who want to offer some neat functionality that's browser specific, but I think its decidedly broken to offer public services only to people who use a particular kind of browser, computer, etc. This site simply can't be compliant with Section 508 or the American's with Disabilities Act. I've got a lot of respect for Gary Ott and I think he's clearly clueful about many of the public records issues that eGovernment is raising, but I'm disappointed in this.
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DIDW: The Identity of Things
This morning's opening session was a panel moderated by Esther Dyson on the Identity of Things. The debate naturally moved to what does it mean for all of the things I buy to be individually identified. Who manages the relationships? Me? Others? A near-term example that can shed light on some of the questions is SpeedPass, the RFID devices that are being distributed in urban areas to charge tolls to cars as they speed by rather than making the cars stop and pay the toll. These can, of course, be used to track the vehicle in other places as well, and some people are concerned about the "big bother" aspects.
The question I have is, does anyone care? Now that's asked somewhat tongue in cheek since the debate that occurred today in Denver indicates that there are people who care. Even so, consumers have shown their ever increasing willingness to give Albertson's just about any information Albertson's might want to collect in order to save $0.50 on a six-pack of Coke. I think if you tell people that they can have a suitcase that tells you what you're missing after you pack it (based on RFID tags on the clothing), they'll jump for it. Sure, there will be some local news stories about how scary this is and some people will spend lots of money removing the tags or buying devices to kill them, but most people just won't care.
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