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Nice turn of phrase

Josh McHugh — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:46:03 -0700

Top-notch rhetoric-Fu:

While some portable data advocates think of the portability systems as “vaseline” that will grease the skids of smooth interoperation, the truth is it may assist another function of vaseline.

F, as they say, TW!

Still has user choice

brad — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:48:17 -0700

Your document still talks about user choice and configuration of what information is given out.

This reflects the common mistake here. You think of technologies like this as ways to control how your information is given out. They also need to be thought of as technologies that facilitate the giving out of information.

Unfortunately, you just can't facilitate the giving out of information without causing information to be given out more often.

The only way I can see to make it work is if you don't give out information. Instead you receive tasks to be done with your information, and do them for the outside application.

However, the problem is you can only do tasks that have been defined. Alternately, you can import generic code to do tasks, but you need a way to trust that code, since it could of course just suck in all your information and export it.

A proposed solution to identity issues/paradox

Trey Tomeny — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:52:35 -0700

I emailed you with an earlier version of this idea about a year ago. Check out http://thetrustednet.org to see if this iteration overcomes your previous objections. It involves organizations that are set up with the sole purpose of being identity service providers, dubbed here "Privacy Providers".