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

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

I appreciate moving this discussion into the Requirements Core Topic. 
However, the original thread still has plenty of room left in it for 
suggestions.

For this offshoot, I think we might want to cast the role of 
HumanMarkup within the larger and smaller contexts mentioned so far. 
We're not the defining entity, nor will we be in the certification 
business, but we will have a role in authorization, at least for the 
data that we compile and distribute. We're the ones who will be 
definitely putting the keys in the hands of the individuals. For Law 
Enforcement and to some extent, other arenas of Public Safety and 
emergency Services, we wouldn't want it in the hands of individuals, 
with the caveat that we ought to be able to review and attempt to 
amend information that we, as individuals, consider false or 
incomplete.

There will a Legal Profile or perhaps a Profile for Legal Purposes 
that we will have a hand in. The question is how much.

Ciao,
Rex


At 4:07 PM -0700 9/10/01, Kurt Cagle wrote:
>  > 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
>
>
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