RE: [humanmarkup-comment] Fw: Elements of Human Dignity and Decen cy?

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

This comes up in the topics on location dependent services. 
Essentially, to sign up, one has to provide some minimal 
amount of information to establish a context which the 
server can use to determine interests given nodes along a 
route.  How much context is provided determines what 
kinds and types of information is pushed to the receiver. 
So, yes, the user can choose to provide different contexts 
and these become the layers to which features are attached. 
(Don't take those terms too literally; I am thinking in terms 
of mapping concepts.)   

A side effect of ontological entanglement is that controls 
emerge to handle the communications.  In the case of recent 
events, very different and yes, antithetical cultures are 
entangling and engaging.  While the principals are sorting 
out their problems, others are observing and determining 
levels and methods of engagement.  One might say, a third 
set of beliefs emerges and these act as loose controls 
over the processes.   I assert that one bright spot in 
this is that even with the differences of cultural and 
religious background, the world itself is converging 
on a shared set of beliefs about what it is to be human 
given these events.   The more our policy wonks and 
information wonks are able to distill this emerging 
commonality and focus on presenting it widely, the 
better the cause of these individuals will resonate 
globally.  This is independent of our technology, but 
not the goal of our applications.  One can say with 
conviction that reducing misunderstanding shows its 
most important result in the emergence of shared beliefs. 
Human decency and dignity can be understood as promoting 
the value of individuals and their freedoms.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga [mailto:rkthunga@humanmarkup.org]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 11:45 AM
To: OASIS Comment; Owen_Ambur@fws.gov
Cc: ari@cdt.org
Subject: [humanmarkup-comment] Fw: Elements of Human Dignity and
Decency?


I have another take...

In a sense, HumanML is technology independent, and how it is used is not
under our control.  However, in another sense, it will only make human
information more available, and more explicit--it can never make human
information less explicit.

An excellent Use Case for HumanML to be in the development of a system to
allow voluntary, free input of personal information by individuals, which
allows them to express their beliefs..if there's one human universality, its
that we all want to be heard...that is if we feel the information we share
will benefit ourselves and selected others, and not used against us.

That's not to say we don't need other types of systems as well--yeah we are
technology independent effort focusing on the specs itself--however, fully
transparent information about our internal states isn't something may not be
something people ultimately may cringe at...rather, it might be something
people would welcome.