Dec 30, 2007
Every now and then, inevitably, the debate sparks again in the digital identity community as to what is “identity,” what is “digital identity,” and whether we can have several identities or only one, etc. In this last year week occurrence of the discussion, I’ve come to understand – tentatively – a number of confusions that are being made. I felt that different dimensions of a conceptual set (if n
Jun 29, 2007
Yesterday, after the last public sessions of the ICANN meeting here in San Juan, I found myself fine dining at a wonderful restaurant called Marmalade, 317 Fortaleza street in the old city, with a few colleagues among which Bertrand de la Chapelle, Milton Mueller, and Robin Gross the initiator of the ICANN-related campaign “Keep the Core Neutral“. The food was really good, and the portions not “ag
Jun 27, 2007
I am at the ICANN 29th meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 25 to 29. IP Justice is launching today the campaign “Keep The Core Neutral” addressing ICANN, and in particular, its Board. In an earlier circulation of the text for this campaign, I raised a few concerns that were not totally addressed. The argument of the campaign manifesto is double fold: ICANN is a technical coordinator and should
Jun 23, 2007
A couple weeks ago, I posted the following question on the Internet Identity Workshop email list (a group maintained by the Identity Gang), What is human subject digital identity without any government-issued identity credential, or government certified identity attribute? I got a first answer that expresses the reflex of skepticism and suspicion toward government authority, probably
Mar 21, 2010
The modern origins of the notion of the rights of individuals have often been linked to the liberal humanist philosophy about the human subject, which historically culminated with the Enlightenment. The right of privacy is one of those rights of the individual. Although it is not directly spelled out in the American constitution as an end in itself, several European constitutions and/or privacy le
