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The individual as an axiom (for the emergence of identity)
by Owen Thomas 27 May '13

27 May '13

Hello again. I've disclosed another piece on my blog about my belief that the individual is the underpinning axiom behind identity; a concept which I think the identity communities here and society in general are yet to accept and embrace. My Clique Space(TM) concept is ultimately based on the abstract notion of the individual - the only entity in this world which has the capability of making assertions. The individual is expressed in Clique Space as a collection of Clique Space Elements which are used to organise and project an individual's identity thorugh any type of device one wishes one's presence to be known. I hope you might find that what I'm trying to put together piques interest in what you're doing. Owen. -- Employment-from-home. Make mine part-time. Yes you can. Software developers certainly can be salaried and superannuated part-time from home. Make it so for this one. Clique Space(TM): A seat for the soul. www.owenpaulthomas.blogspot.com

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Server maintenance on May 27, 2013
by Oliver Maerz 27 May '13

27 May '13

In an effort to provide reliable Kantara Initiative web based services our servers will be upgraded later tonight. Starting 6 pm pacific websites and email will be temporarily offline. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding the upgrade/maintenance. Thanks, Oliver -- *Oliver Maerz* External Consultant *Kantara Initiative* +1 (503) 468-4188 oliver (at) kantarainitiative.org http://www.kantarainitiative.org The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. No representation is made on its accuracy or completeness of the information contained in this electronic message. Certain assumptions may have been made in the preparation of this material as at this date, and are subject to change without notice. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. Please reply to Oliver Maerz and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments from your system. -- *Oliver Maerz* External Consultant *Kantara Initiative* +1 (503) 468-4188 oliver (at) kantarainitiative.org http://www.kantarainitiative.org The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. No representation is made on its accuracy or completeness of the information contained in this electronic message. Certain assumptions may have been made in the preparation of this material as at this date, and are subject to change without notice. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. Please reply to Oliver Maerz and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments from your system.

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Server maintenance on May 25, 2013
by Oliver Maerz 25 May '13

25 May '13

In an effort to provide reliable Kantara Initiative web based services our servers will be upgraded later tonight (Saturday, May 25, 2013). During the maintenance the websites and email may be temporarily offline. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding the upgrade/maintenance. Thanks, Oliver -- *Oliver Maerz* External Consultant *Kantara Initiative* +1 (503) 468-4188 oliver (at) kantarainitiative.org http://www.kantarainitiative.org The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. No representation is made on its accuracy or completeness of the information contained in this electronic message. Certain assumptions may have been made in the preparation of this material as at this date, and are subject to change without notice. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. Please reply to Oliver Maerz and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments from your system.

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Individual Sovereignty and Identity in Clique Space.
by Owen Thomas 24 May '13

24 May '13

Hello people. I thought I might put a short something in my blog that discloses how the individual emerges as a "Sovereign" entity in Clique Space, and how this sovereignty can be asserted to other Clique Space users. I hope maybe it has resonance with some of you. Get back to me if it does. Owen. -- Employment-from-home. Make mine part-time. Yes you can. Software developers certainly can be salaried and superannuated part-time from home. Make it so for this one. Clique Space(TM): A seat for the soul. www.owenpaulthomas.blogspot.com

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Equivalence of Clique Space access model to RBAC.
by Owen Thomas 13 May '13

13 May '13

Hello people. I'm hoping this might be seen as a reasonable question that other members of this mail list might be able to help me with. I'm looking at the UML for RBAC I have found on Wikipedia<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/RBAC.jpg>(a source as reliable as any I have found) and I find that the Clique Space resource access model (CSRAM... maybe) corresponds loosely to the UML if one makes the following substitutions: Oganisation -> Clique Space Role -> Mode Profile Permission -> Property Operation -> Enabling Constraint User/Role Constraint -> Affiliation Subject -> Sovereign Session -> Connection With the exception of the property and the Enabling Constraint, all of these substitutions in the above list are made with Clique Space Elements. The concept of the Enabling Constraint and the Clique Space Elements were disclosed in my patent, but the concept of the property became an artefact that emerged in subsequent development. However, there appears to be no equivalent in Clique Space to the Role Activation Constraint class in the RBAC UML. I would appreciate it if someone could please point me to an explanation of, or fill me in with the function of the Role Activation Constraint. Thanks, Owen. -- Employment-from-home. Make mine part-time. Yes you can. Software developers certainly can be salaried and superannuated part-time from home. Make it so for this one. Clique Space(TM): A seat for the soul. www.owenpaulthomas.blogspot.com

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Join your Kantara peers for dinner - IIW & IDESG next week
by Andrew Hughes 10 May '13

10 May '13

Hello Kantara community - many of us will be at IIW and/or IDESG meetings next week, which presents a great opportunity for us to have a good meal, swap stories, make connections and generally catch up with each other. We are planning a *Kantara dinner on Friday May 10*, at a time and convenient place to be finalized this week. If you are interested in joining us, please respond to this note - we'll have some tables reserved. For those familiar with Mountain View / Santa Clara, if you have restaurant suggestions, please send them to me. Hope to see you at the dinner or during the week andrew. PS This is an unsponsored event and each person will be responsible for their bill. *Andrew Hughes, CISSP, CISM* Director, Trust Framework Sustainment Program *Kantara Initiative* andrew(a)kantarainitiative.org skype: andrewhughes3000(a)gmail.com +1 250 888 9474

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Fwd: [community] survey of privacy features of authentication technologies
by Owen Thomas 09 May '13

09 May '13

I've given the example again minus the grammatical errors and confusion in the number of diners on my blog<http://owenpaulthomas.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/another-clique-spacetm-usage-…> . -- Employment-from-home. Make mine part-time. Yes you can. Software developers certainly can be salaried and superannuated part-time from home. Make it so for this one. Clique Space(TM): A seat for the soul. www.owenpaulthomas.blogspot.com

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Fwd: [community] survey of privacy features of authentication technologies
by Owen Thomas 08 May '13

08 May '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas(a)gmail.com> Date: 9 May 2013 13:17 Subject: Re: [community] survey of privacy features of authentication technologies To: David Chadwick <d.w.chadwick(a)kent.ac.uk> Cc: Peter Bachman <peterb(a)cequs.com>, Stephen Wilson < swilson(a)lockstep.com.au>, "community(a)lists.idcommons.net" < community(a)lists.idcommons.net>, Samer Wazan <aswazan(a)gmail.com> Hello again. I apologise that I'm not too well informed of the debate in privacy; x.509 certificates, IETF, OASIS are acronyms that fly too far above my head to reach. However, I would like to give my own view of privacy and authentication in relation to my Clique Space idea. Hopefully, the example I use here will illustrate some general features people consider salient. Say, I and three others are going out to have a dinner at a restaurant. The occasion is that it is a mother's day dinner out, and I am taking my mother (one of the other three people) out to dinner. I am paying for her dinner, but the other two individual is paying for themselves. Say, we all live in a world where Clique Space is commonplace. What, you might wonder, does this mean? At the most abstract level, this means that you possess one or more Agent Devices and you use your Agent Devices to cooperate with Agent Devices of other people in Cliques which form, grow, shrink, and disband within and between administrative domains called Clique Spaces. Agent Devices are devices like any other and have a physical manifestation like phones, cars, and computers. Other things like credit cards, Facebook pages, twitter accounts, bank accounts, and other abstract entities having no physical existence can be considered devices in Clique Space if they can exchange state information with one or more Agent Devices. Now, back to the restaurant example, myself and the other three co-diners walk into the restaurant and meet the waiter. Before we are ushered to our table, the waiter verifies with us who is in our Clique, and who the Clique's Owner will be. I say I will be the Clique's Owner as I know who will be paying for who's meal; the waiter, an individual who has activated their "waiter" Affiliation through a selected Identity, gives me the Identity through which they have done this. I possess relevant Identities of my co-diners, and I use all Identities to form the Clique that I will own. This Clique lasts for the duration of our meal. The restaurant uses the information in their account and in the service record of our waiter. I use the Clique to assert that I will pay for myself and my mother. The third diner accepts the condition that they pay for their own meal or the Clique wouldn't have been able to form. The waiter has joined my Clique because the Clique I have formed accepts that payment will be automatically deducted from each diner's account into the restaurant's account sufficient to pay the bill of service. Each Participant has the opportunity to persist their individual Clique Space activity; interactions with others constitute this activity, and so each Participant has the opportunity to keep a record of this Clique in case there is any contention as to the bill, the proportion of the bill payed by each diner, the service offered by the waiter, or the activity recorded against other media like the bank's transaction system. Each Participant except my mother disclosed their bank's transaction facility as a medium in this Clique. When the Clique formed, the devices that compose each Participant's transaction facility were nominated in the relevant Participant as Connections - activated against the relevant Identities by these identities to be expressed in the corresponding Participant. Again, the Clique cannot form if the media requirements set by the Clique's Owner candidate (my candidate Participant) are not met by all other candidate Participants. Hence, the Clique will only form if the medium and all constraints regarding the usage of this medium are met by all candidate Participants. Actual Participant instances will only be instantiated when constraint affinity can be met, and can only exist while ever constraint affinity can continue to be met. I think my example fits in with privacy and an authentication mechanisms featured by other contributors in this thread, and there might be others who would like to discuss how these mechanisms might work. Owen. -- Employment-from-home. Make mine part-time. Yes you can. Software developers certainly can be salaried and superannuated part-time from home. Make it so for this one. Clique Space(TM): A seat for the soul. www.owenpaulthomas.blogspot.com -- Employment-from-home. Make mine part-time. Yes you can. Software developers certainly can be salaried and superannuated part-time from home. Make it so for this one. Clique Space(TM): A seat for the soul. www.owenpaulthomas.blogspot.com

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