RE: HM.Requirements: Legal (was Re: Long and Not Much to the Poi nt:Re: HM.applications-Profiling-Level of Details/Abstraction)

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Certainly.  Yet records containing data about a person, 
data ascribed to a person, etc. are not that person.  
An agency can make many assertions in the form 
of data about a person with that person having some 
or no rights for access or control of that data. 
It is a broad subject that should concern individuals.
Assignment of a namespace ID, a GUID, etc for purposes 
of creating identity over some set of records, or a 
device with access to some system is a different 
subject.

Personal identity has no namespace.  A person may 
have some legal control over some means or system 
of identification and how it is used in the context 
of that person conducting transactions with some 
system.  IOW, let's not go down the trek of 
trying to figure out if "the map is the territory" 
or worse, become embroiled in legal ownership 
issues.  That's a mess which is likely to keep a 
lot of Harvard and Yalie grads up nights.  The 
crux of it is assent to a system (granting 
authority).  It is sort of like inviting a vampire 
to cross the threshhold.  Once in, the bite is on.


Len 
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga [mailto:rkthunga@humanmarkup.org]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 11:35 AM
To: humanmarkup-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: HM.Requirements: Legal (was Re: Long and Not Much to the
Poi nt: Re: HM.applications-Profiling-Level of Details/Abstraction)


I would think that the identity (personal identity) and identifier (system
identity) identities could have the same namespace (i.e. a machine
processable GUID)

     -namespace (GUID) referencing unique "human object" (for lack of a
better word) (http://www.interposting.com/ranjeethkumarthunga)

The namespace itself would contain the resources that make up the
'ranjeethkumarthunga' object, including the base physical, psychological,
etc data and appropriately constrained set of schemas, referencing the
appropriate namespaces for HumanML modules (indian_ancestry, US_gestures,
etc).  Of course, these schemas would have namespaces that point to OASIS).