I have been following this thread from the other side of the pond.
An interesting and ongoing debate but I maintain that ‘I’ am the ONLY entity who owns my identity and it changes and morphs as I grow and continually add experiences.
Now, I can keep this completely private as long as my ambition is to sit on a mountain top and hummm! If I want to engage with a community or society of any kind then I need to share or exchange it.
All I want is to be able to chose what bits, at what time, for what reason and with whom I share it – the same things that I do with my cash. And, like my money, I want a record of these events.
What I don’t want is any organisation, public or private, passing it on without my knowledge or consent.
If government-centric then it will be designed and used for their benefit.
If individual –centric the it can be ‘under my control, with my consent, for my benefit’.
See http://blog.grahamsadd.com/
Regards
Graham
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From: community-request@lists.idcommons.net [mailto:community-request@lists.idcommons.net] On Behalf Of Frank Wray
Sent: 12 January 2011 14:18
To: trutkowski@netmagic.com; Drummond Reed
Cc: Mary Ruddy; Walsh, Alan J; Rob Marano; community@lists.idcommons.net; community@kantarainitiative.org
Subject: Re: [community] an interesting question
I am not sure if I agree completely... Americans have a history of not trusting government, and as a matter of fact, America was born on the notion of the lack of trust in government. The media uses that to sell their product.
But, Identity should not be treated as a government issue, nation issue, but a user-centric issue in an Internet connected world (global). Each user is the owner of their identity and each user should have the ability to provide the information that they want to provide when they engage in an Internet transaction (sharing information included) and maintain the anonymity when desired.
NSTIC was misrepresented by the mainstream media, but the root of the issue is the name. We cannot have a Nation-centric identity eco-system in a global Internet. One of the beauties of the Internet is the lack of borders. A global initiative where governments, the private sector and user communities as interested parties build the trust framework and use some or one of the current trust framework initiatives out there. And I am not suggesting that NSTIC is necessarily nation-centric, but the name leads to that believe.
I also believe that the misrepresentation of the media is actually a good thing. This will not necessarily "kill" the initiative it will improve it and maybe even "globalize it" as I have suggested.
So, let's keep the conversation going... :)