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Third Law of Identity
The Fewest Parties Law of Identity
Technical identity systems MUST be designed so the disclosure of identifying information is limited to parties having a necessary and justifiable place in a given identity relationship.
My own understanding of this law is one of the happy by-products of what I think of as my “Passport Aha”. [...]
Denver Post on Ping
Everyone should check out the Denver Post’s article on Andre Durand and Eric Norlin. It captures a lot about the whole experience of building Ping. And it contains the unforgettable line, which I hope I have made more flattering:
Norlin, known around Ping’s offices for his… humor, joked that cashing out [...]
Scott Mace has posted his interview with Dick Hardt… Interesting…
Second Law of Identity
Before we get to take a walk on the Norlin side, it’s time for the Second Law of Identity. And it’s simple enough:
The Minimal Disclosure Law of Identity
The solution which discloses the least identifying information is the most stable, long-term solution.
The thesis here is that the more identifying information is released, [...]
My discussion about the relationship between employees and employers seems to have moved Eric Norlin to drop his proposed amendment to the first law of identity… He still has questions, though, like “say my employer tracks my web surfing habits - do i have to explicitly hand that over? surely, my surfing tracks are [...]
Craig Burton has been generously heaping kudos my way for aruging that a discussion of the philosophy of identity is orthogonal to the discussion we should have about the laws of identity. And I’m going to hold firmly to that direction, even though I received this titillating comment - probably more relevant to Scott [...]
There is an interesting piece recapitulating many aspects of how problems of identity have been approached in the philosophical tradition at:
Olson, Eric T., “Personal Identity“, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2002 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
One important conclusion is that the philosophy of identity is orthogonal to the current discussion.
Do not worry! The graphic to your right is not really happening!
I’m currently switching to a new Toshiba Portege tablet PC (the HP tablet I was trying before was too heavy and the screen was u-n-b-e-l-i-e-v-a-b-l-y small).
As part of the grossly tedious job of moving my environment from last week’s system to this week’s, [...]
Scott Lemon, who was a driving force behind Digital ME and is now working on a project called Free ID, is posting a series of “Axioms of Identity“. We are dealing with some of the same issues, but at different levels of abstraction. I hope to reference Scott’s axioms later when I get [...]
Dropping of an Identity Bomb
Craig Burton listened to Noel Anderson talking about the Bluetooth Identity Bomb and transcribed some of my interview with him. He was as blown away as I was.
Craig also says he wants to put my first law of identity into the lexicon crockpot. That is great news. Craig [...]
