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From: | Gary Berg-Cross <gbergcross@xxxxxxxxx> |
Date: | Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:29:08 -0400 |
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Thanks all for the interesting comments on this which seems to agree that as William put it: "identification in cyberspace is what creates the the acute need for better understanding of identifications." I do find that computer scientists, programmers and the like often get off on a fast track without understanding some of the down side of ignored issues. They start talking about identifiers of digital objects and then jump to this as some basis for interoperability as in: "The system of federated registries in this Recommendation is based on an open architecture that enables interoperability across arbitrary information systems." It is in part a misplaced reliance on concretized identity management (identifier is a series of bits) as opposed to understanding that these identities (rather than The Identity) arise from a process of identifying something is some useful way among may such ways as Hans noted. BTW, if one wants to see some of that people are talking about as part of identity and ID management for digital objects you can look at: X.1255 : Framework for discovery of identity management information http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.1255-201309-I Since William has a long time interest following his Bachelor's work on some of this his comments may be interesting. The above quote on interoperability is from this report as is this large claim (pg 7): "The components are: a) a scalable and distributed identifier system for the identification of DEs and for identifier resolution; b) repositories for access to and management of digital entities; and c) registries for federated search and discovery. Using these components, the resulting distributed system can be managed through interface specifications and protocols instead of through the on-going maintenance of specific components. Digital entities are the core element around which all other components and services are built and managed. Digital entities do not replace existing formats and data structures, but instead provide a common means for representing these formats and structures, allowing them to be uniformly interpreted and thus moveable in and out of various heterogeneous information systems and across changes in systems over time." Gary Berg-Cross, Ph.D. NSF INTEROP Project SOCoP Executive Secretary Independent Consultant Potomac, MD 240-426-0770 On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:47 AM, William Frank <williamf.frank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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