{"id":232,"date":"2005-02-10T05:09:46","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T05:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=232"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"p-t-ong-exhausted-by-7th-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"P. T. Ong exhausted by 7th Law"},"content":{"rendered":"
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P. T. Ong's<\/a> reaction to the Seventh Law<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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One quick first<\/em> reaction<\/em> to Kim Cameron<\/font><\/a>‘s recently posted Seventh “Law” of Identity<\/font><\/a><\/em> — it's too long. <\/div>\n
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7. Harmonious Contextual Autonomy<\/font><\/a><\/strong>: The unifying identity metasystem MUST facilitate negotiation between relying party and user of the specific identity and its associated encoding such that the unifying system presents a harmonious technical and human interface while permitting the autonomy of identity in different contexts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kim<\/strong>: You need to cut the number of words in half. It's a 41 word sentence! <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Do you need to open the window, as Jamie said?<\/div>\n
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This might seem a frivolous reaction, but it is my experience that fundamental stuff can be expressed simply. If it is difficult to express simply, then it is probably not fundamental … and thus, shouldn't be a “law” or a principle. It should be broken down to it's component ideas. <\/p>\n

I read #7 several times, and I still am having problems trying to understand it. I suspect the problem is not with the language but with the complexity of the idea. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You are totally right. I need to simplify this. Craig Burton has made the same point. I'm squeezing too hard.<\/div>\n
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As I said when writing the seventh law, the totalizing effect of the other six is that “the head explodes”. But we should be shielding the reader from this.<\/div>\n
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P. T. Ong's reaction to the Seventh Law: One quick first reaction to Kim Cameron‘s recently posted Seventh “Law” of Identity — it's too long. 7. Harmonious Contextual Autonomy: The unifying identity metasystem MUST facilitate negotiation between relying party and user of the specific identity and its associated encoding such that the unifying system presents … Continue reading P. T. Ong exhausted by 7th Law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}