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

[Kurt Cagle <kurt@kurtcagle.net>]

> I'm working on an identification scheme that incorporates a digital
> signature, if that will be of any help. The "who defines this?" is
"legally
> controlled" by the person who owns the keypair. The system is still
limited
> to the interpretation of that system and the context of the transactions
> using those identifiers (an unsolvable problem, IMO), but the scope is a
> lot tighter because of the security and relative ease of use of digital
> signatures.

I think this is all that you can reasonably do, to be honest. A schema
should in general be independent of the transactions that the schema is used
in; we just need to insure that there is enough of a hook to make sure that
such can be implemented.

--Kurt