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Fighting for Consensus, Take 2
In April, I appealed a decision by the W3C Chairs to place DID Methods in scope in the next DID WG Charter. That appeal was ignored and the charter advanced to AC Review. This is our Formal Objection to that … Continue reading
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Fighting for Consensus at the W3C
I am formally appealing to the Director of the W3C to deny the decision by the DID WG Charter chairs to override dissent about the inclusion of DID methods in the scope of the next DID WG Charter, as embodied in part in the decision to merge PR#20 and PR#27 into the DID WG Charter.
Enabling the DID WG to develop specific DID methods will actively undermine the work’s fundamental goal of decentralization. Continue reading
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A great conversation about #GoodID
Identity can be a real pain to discuss. #GoodID turns about to be a great way to talk about the diverse needs of different stakeholders in digital identity, resulting in actionable plans to shift policy. Continue reading
Posted in Identity, privacy, regulatory, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged Caribou Digital, Good ID, GoodID, Harvard Kennedy School, Omidyar Network, Policy
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How Identity Can Enable A People-Centered Internet
Understanding Identity through Function This is the second of a regular column on Identity for the People Centered Internet. In the first column, I introduced the idea of Functional Identity as a way for ordinary people to discuss identity, with … Continue reading
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Beware the Plan of Sauron
The “Master App” can’t magically make it all work. On the project VRM blog, Doc Searls recently suggested that the killer app for VRM is the “Master App”. In response, on the Project VRM email list, Jim Pasquale suggested it’s … Continue reading
Posted in ProjectVRM, Uncategorized, Vendor Relationship Management
Tagged Lord of the Rings, project VRM, Sauron, startups, VRM
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Kindle files to my iPad (Gutenberg eBooks)
How do you get a book at Project Gutenberg into your iPad Kindle app? It’s easy. Go to Gutenberg on your iPad and download the “Kindle” .mobi file. It’ll automatically open in the Kindle app. Yay. Don’t worry about instructions … Continue reading
Personal Data Stores, Exchanges, and Applications
Words matter. In the last few years, we in the VRM community have been using term “personal data store” as cornerstone concept. We all understood we were talking about the same thing: a VRM approach for allowing people to use … Continue reading
Looking for feedback on pRFP and Information Sharing
At the VRM+CRM workshop last month, we (the Kantara ISWG) released two papers for comment. One on the Personal Request For Proposal (pRFP) Engagement Model and the other the Information Sharing Report. The first is a look at a the … Continue reading
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Tagged Information Sharing, ISWG, Kantara, pRFP
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Steve Blank at the Pescadrome in Santa Barbara April 14, 2010
Steve Blank, Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and author of Four Steps to the Epiphany, will be presenting at the Fishbon Event Lab, Wednesday April 14 in Santa Barbara. The Event Lab starts at 7ish with a potluck barbecue, followed by … Continue reading
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Digital cleansing
Several folks (Matt Cutts and John Meyer, among others) have called for a break from our social networking, online everything world. Sure. It’s about time. I sated myself long ago on the digital high of social networking, whether you call it … Continue reading