RE: [cpexchange-net] Fostering convergence

[David RR Webber <Gnosis_@compuserve.com>]

Message text written by Ram Kumar
>The efforts of XNS are much needed and can help in the standardization of
a
secure, private exchange of customer information. However, it is unclear
what the current level of development of the standard is, since none of the
work has been released on the website to date. In addition, one must
investigate how XNS competes or augments the work of eXtensible
Name/Address
Language (xNAL), the associated eXtensible Customer Information Language
(xCIL), and the Customer Profile eXchange (CPExchange) standard. Perhaps
the
three should find some way to merge their efforts as they each solve
different parts of the same customer information puzzle. As far as XNS is
concerned, XNS is worth being tracked and evaluating once the specification
is made available to the public.
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OTA is also another co-involved piece of work too:  http://www.ota.org
where personal profiles are exchanged.  
And also the UK government work on E-Gov portal.

The key missing piece in all this is control by the individual over the
use and distribution of their information.  In the US noone cares because
corporate law means that any information given to a corporation is then
owns.  In the EU and Canada it is the reverse.

Anyway - we're solving a smaller part of the puzzle here first!

DW.