Re: [xri] VUHID

[Markus Sabadello <markus.sabadello@xdi.org>]

There's a well-known Austrian pop song called "A Mensch möcht i bleibn" by famous singer Wolfgang Ambros. It's difficult to translate, but it roughly goes like this:

"Human I want to remain,
not a number I wanna become,
and real humans I want to see,
because I am very much against building things just for robots,
and against just watching dumb TV..
etc."

This was written before I was born and is older than the web by almost two decades, but I have to think about it every time I see i-numbers or other numbers for identifying people :)

Markus

2010/6/25 Nat Sakimura <n-sakimura@nri.co.jp>

Found this document http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/download/attachments/37749863/VUHIDdemo6-10-10.ppt

Seems to try to solve what XRI originally intended to.
It is a number only format. I do not know why people "like" long numbers.
It has no authentication.

There is a similar discussion going on at the Japanese Government.
They also only talk about "numbers", and do not talk about "authentication".

It is a great mystery to me why people think of "numbers" are the silver bullet for solving identity problems.