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I
assume this is based on David Brock's work. The papers at the site make it
clear
that the smart tags system are not to be used with people.
Biometric systems are used for identity. ID card scans are used as
well
in
both commercial and federal systems (when moving prisoners for example).
They
all depend on a naming service as does Brock's system.
I am
still looking at the PML. It appears initially to substantially duplicate
the
work done on PDES. It makes the claim for simplicity, the usual obeisiance
to
HTML and the usual "SGML is too complex", but also coveniently forgets
that
all of these systems also started out as simple.
Len Bullard
Intergraph Public
Safety
clbullar@ingr.com
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard
Ekam
sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h
A guid based on physical characteristics. I
would think biometric means I would assume (fingerprint, retina scans, etc)
are of couse guids that could be used for identity I would think? I know you mentioned a GUID system you were working on
sudhakar.
Physical characteristics, as they aid in the
communications process or representing avatars of individuals, or in medicine,
auditioning, online dating--are what are the most obvious applications (from
my personal perspective at least) see their importance in describing them
during communication. If you are working on something that
goes into much more precise detail, as long as done in a modular fashion (the
amount of detail corresponding to detail necessary), then I could see a good
interface between the projects.
It may be quite complementary to
formally establish a subcommittee in HumanMarkup for physical descriptions (we
could consider this one domain), along with psychological, social, and
cultural descriptions as being some other domains (or
taxonomies)...some more time to finalize nomenclature.
Regardless, it seems like a complementary match.
(Well, humanmarkup.org and my email were down for
3 hours...now that it's up, I checked, and it appears some of my email has
vanished...oh well, that's life..;-).)
Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
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