On 27-Feb-06, at 1:46 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
I think of 'digital identity' as one word. I'm not hung up on
defining 'identity'.
The X.500/LDAP universe of discourse worked fine without drilling
into it.
By way of suggesting a line of discussion:
I think that the X.500 world has not worked all that fine at all,
You switched topics from 'X500/LDAP universe of discourse' to
'success of X500'...
except within very constrained environments. The scale and
diversity of the open Internet has been a notable failure for the X.
500 world, although that was its original ta
Hence LDAP.
And, by analogy DIX.
The Internet Identity Workshop has
been kicking all this stuff about for a while. I'd rather this
group focused on
the technical realization of an architecture for user-centric
digital identity.
That presumes an Internet community consensus about both the
meaning of the term identity, as it will be used here, and the
architecture for it.
I haven't noticed either present in the IETF arena, so I suspect
you have some educating to do.
You could join the IIW group.
In my Identity 2.0 talk[1], I describe Identity as being who you
are. This is a
"who you are" is a reasonable place to begin, but does not have
quite enough substance to direct technical work. For example, the
difference between a person performing in one role, versus another,
might or might not require different identities. It might even
require some sort of identity "hierarchy".
Which motivates the desire for compartmentalization of identity.
Yes, all of these issues have been discussed in specialized circles
for some decades.
The issue I am raising, here, is that the engineering work to be
pursued here needs to list specific choices for these things and
has to have community agreement on those choices.
So, before there is any discussion of formats and protocol rules,
there needs to be an understanding of the capabilities and
constraints of the construct "identity" used for this work.
Think we've come full circle Dave.
John
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Dave Crocker
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