Grounds for Identity
Doc Searls,
Linux Journal,
Nov 14, 2002
The author makes the same point I made in passing during my talk in Milan: that personal identity ought to belong to the person and not to a service provider or some other agency. You would think that this would be straightforward and obvious, but it's not, at least, not to industry. The response is to create a digital identity system for the rest of us. "If we create the protocols, APIs and other standards that let customers relate at full power with the companies they choose, consumer becomes an obsolete noun. The companies now in full charge of the identities they confer on each of us will no longer have full control, because now they will have to relate and not just distribute."
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