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Towards Open Source Identities



Articles for further exploration of this subject, although I’m still not certain what value an open-source identity would have (but I intuit that there is one!):

  1. Digital Identity: “Identifiers are the key used by the parties to an identification relationship to agree on the entity being represented.” {see also: networked identity in that same article}
  2. Juristic person: “an artificial entity through which the law allows a group of natural persons to act as if it were a single composite individual for certain purposes, or in some jurisdictions, for a single person to have a separate legal personality other than their own”
  3. Identity management: ” the management of the identity life cycle of entities (subjects or objects) during which: (1) the identity is established… (2) the identity is described… (3) the identity is destroyed.”

What does all this mean? Where does it all point? What does it allow us to do that we’re not doing now?







6 Reader Responses

  1. Tim Boucher Says:
    October 5th, 2007 at 3:59 pm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_management

    Identities may be managed by either the entities themselves or by other parties, which may be private parties, for example employers or shops, or public parties like personal records offices and immigration services.

    Identity management in the public domain is known by the name of National Identity Management.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty

    Sovereignty is the exclusive right to complete political (e.g. legislative, judicial, and/or executive) control over an area of governance, people, or oneself. A sovereign is the supreme lawmaking authority, subject to no other.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work

  2. Julia Says:
    October 7th, 2007 at 5:14 pm

    BTW this is one of the ads in the corner. I guess Google already knows what you are looking for.

    http://www.atricore.com/training.html?gclid=CL2ots_m_Y4CFQYjWAodDHvU2g

    What I came here to ask about was Tulpas. One of your best articles was on this subject and the Juristic Person definitely relates. It seems to me that a lot of what you’re talking about lately relates too.

  3. Tim Boucher Says:
    October 7th, 2007 at 9:05 pm

    Holy shit! Tulpas egregores juristic persons Grant Morrison etc etc

    See also Dutch East India Company’s Role in American Revolution

  4. speedbird Says:
    October 8th, 2007 at 3:28 am

    I may be behind the curve here but I’m thinking your recent stuff on librarianship and performance is pretty interesting.

    Performance librarians…

    I mean John Hegley’s a performance poet but a performance librarian must be one step beyond, right?

  5. Tim Boucher Says:
    October 8th, 2007 at 3:44 am

    Performance Reference Librarians

  6. Tim Boucher Says:
    October 8th, 2007 at 3:53 am

    Reference Point Performance Referees & Librarianship



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