Stephen Downes

Short little article that hearkens back to the days when we spoke of a personal cloud and argues that "first person" is a more powerful descriptor than "self-sovereign". Specifically, "First person describes exactly the kind of thinking that will allow people create their own oneline relationships without an intermediating administrator like a social network." The post references a talk by Drummond Reed that I couldn't find, but you can get the gist at this post where Doc Searls discusses "how individuals, acting as first parties, can proffer their privacy requirements as contractual terms," which is the subject of a new IEEE PAR, IEEE P7012, nicknamed MyTerms (VRM, by the way, stands for Vendor Relationship Management and is meant to serve as the customer-side counterpart of Customer Relationship Management, according to Searls).