Esther Dyson took this photo of our panel at the Harvard/Berkman conference this week: With the title "They are not whispering about me; I’m anonymous." The trouble is, I can’t even remember what Kim was saying …

They were developed during the open space day at Berkman this week. (Actually, in the basement at MIT Media Lab but who is counting.) Quite interesting. I particularly like the context-sensitivity in these principles, and the separation from what we usually mean by identity.

He’s speaking from the panel, and he’s telling the story about that conversation he had with the Nigerian author who pointed out what in natural markets, relationships matter much more than transactions. He says that markets consist of relationships, conversations and transactions. And in the Western business society, transactions are always at the top of…

In a post titled "The Number Problem in Electronic Identity", partially in response to my post on identity ontologies and Mark Wahl’s on his LDAP experience, Mark Wilcox ponders: …problems that can be summed as one point: * PEOPLE DON’T LIKE TO BE REFERRED TO AS A NUMBER This is because in part, the only…

And he has some concrete experiences around this problem from LDAP. Interestingly enough, his mappings went through UML as the modeling route, which is very similar to the way that we are thinking about this at NetMesh. His point about conceptual difficulties — not just implementation difficulties — about multiple ontologies is right on the…