tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3362616113034437607.post118646442190751154..comments2011-10-20T05:23:53.327+01:00WHnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3362616113034437607.post-15000354000449893552010-01-20T09:17:42.105Z2010-01-20T09:17:42.105ZI won&#39;t comment on Dave Birchs scheme as there can be many ways to achieve PET eID. The important parts are interoperability and ensuring citizens are in control both for the sake of security and for the sake of the economy. <br /><br />Innovations have to be driven by needs and not by interests. Markets don&#39;t work because companies control consumers, but because they don&#39;t. Problem is that we are failling to honor this basic pre-requisites on the threshold to the digital marketplace where data are both money and a source of control. Instead of trying to repeat what people can read in my presentation themselves, I politely refer to my suggested phrasing of the purpose of PET eID.<br /><br />Purpose of National Id 2.0 :<br /> Ensure citizen can establish and maintain a new pseudonymous context and negotiate &amp; adapt to the specific application independently of previous or future transactions .<br /><br />&quot;pseudonymous&quot; should here be understood as support for the widest and most nuanced understanding of the term from fully anonymous to what we would normally understand with a PKI Digital Signature. With Interoperable, I would mean a model-driven mapping of any particular identity attribute and technology into a semantic meta-standard that is open to new technologies and new combinations so we can adapt to very different situations and continous upgrade our most core critical infrastructure - identity structures that control everything else. Most &quot;open standards&quot; are in fact cartel-structures defined by a small group of providers preventing markets from needsdriven -innovating.<br /><br />The point should both be to ensure that the demand-side are empowered to control value chains and that digital markets can selfadjust even in cases of breaches. Today many citizens have been lured into services designed as marketing profilling schemes such as Facebook and outsourcing control of their most fundamental data to Desktop Clouds. We need to ensure these citizens can establish transactional contexts that are totally isolated from such databases with likely canot be revoked. Failures will occur also in the future and we need to ensure there is no benefits achievable from this. This include strong protections against cross-purpose tracking such as many of the third-party sites located at this blog. You can do contextual advertisements, but citizens must be able to control context boundaries and have the full force of democratic support to do so.<br /><br />Sadly enough many countries have seen bureaucrats utilise the digital transformation to take control of society process that require a lot more freedom and space to change. Sure, terrorism and crime require better security but not security failling to support basic society processes. Just because governments got the first phase of the digital spaces wrong, it doesn&#39;t mean we should give up on democracy and free market processes - we simply don&#39;t have alternatives and new technologies keep raising the stakes. <br /><br />Regards<br /><br />Stephan EngbergStephan Engberghttp://www.priway.com/noreply@blogger.com