Comments on: plural of the puppet http://www.infobong.com/wordpress/2007/01/17/plural-of-the-puppet/ the absurd courts the vulgar Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:15:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Weblogsky http://www.infobong.com/wordpress/2007/01/17/plural-of-the-puppet/comment-page-1/#comment-841 Weblogsky Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:17:09 +0000 http://www.infobong.com/wordpress/2007/01/17/plural-of-the-puppet/#comment-841 <strong>Identity standards = police state?...</strong> McChris at infobong.com responds to my "sock mob" post, where I suggest "a standard identity framework with strong and meaningful authentication" as a solution to sock mobbery and other pollution of the commons by astroturfers and worse, who take a... Identity standards = police state?…

McChris at infobong.com responds to my “sock mob” post, where I suggest “a standard identity framework with strong and meaningful authentication” as a solution to sock mobbery and other pollution of the commons by astroturfers and worse, who take a…

]]> By: herestomwiththeweath http://www.infobong.com/wordpress/2007/01/17/plural-of-the-puppet/comment-page-1/#comment-839 herestomwiththeweath Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:36:20 +0000 http://www.infobong.com/wordpress/2007/01/17/plural-of-the-puppet/#comment-839 a few ideas...lessig taught us there are 4 ways to shape behavior: laws, economic incentives, architecture and social norms. only laws are mandatory and we could have a robust identity system without law. an identity architecture and then a social norm could emerge that a message without a verified identity would be considered fraudulent. the government nor credit agencies nor other social institutions need not be involved. also, when jon says "a netwide standard identity framework with strong and meaningful authentication", i believe he means how ebay does it but in a netwide way. authentication does not necessarily mean identification (which is generally through biometric means, even face to face). with an identifier, you can have identity (what others perceive about your identifier) without necessarily having identification. a few ideas…lessig taught us there are 4 ways to shape behavior: laws, economic incentives, architecture and social norms. only laws are mandatory and we could have a robust identity system without law. an identity architecture and then a social norm could emerge that a message without a verified identity would be considered fraudulent. the government nor credit agencies nor other social institutions need not be involved.

also, when jon says “a netwide standard identity framework with strong and meaningful authentication”, i believe he means how ebay does it but in a netwide way. authentication does not necessarily mean identification (which is generally through biometric means, even face to face). with an identifier, you can have identity (what others perceive about your identifier) without necessarily having identification.

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