Re: Verifiable Barcodes

On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 2:53 AM Luis Meijueiro <luis.meijueiro@w3.org> wrote:
> I encourage toning down the argumentative discourse a notch or two.

With reservations, I've removed the paragraph you identified in the
CCG work item proposal.

I will note that the paragraph cited academic research papers
conducted over multiple decades, used publicly available, government
funded research data (U.S. National Institutes of Health and Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention), and other academic research
papers that back up the statements made. I'm sensitive to referring to
academic research and public data sources as FUD. That said, it's of
little value to debate those citations and it would be a distraction
to getting the work done to get embroiled in a debate about them.
People will either find the work useful or not.

Let's just get the technology out there so people can have an
additional tool to tell a fraudulent physical document from a real
one.

> IMHO no single technology is guilty of anything, specially taken out of the context of interaction with other technological and human mechanisms of control in which it is being applied.

To be clear, I didn't say technology was "guilty" of anything. It's a
strange concept, as you point out.

I hope it's obvious to all that a lack of deployed technologies do
lead to harms in society (and the corollary that some technologies
lead to secondary harms in society). Technologies are not binary in
that sense, which is what I believe is your point, Luis.

At the risk of stretching an analogy, the introduction of seatbelts
and airbags in vehicles (on the whole) reduced human suffering. So did
the introduction of penicillin.

Clearly, securing barcodes are not going to have near that level of
positive impact, but they're a tool in the toolbox that have concrete
applications that I was trying to cite. Part of the questionnaire for
CCG work items is to establish the need for the technology.

If you have a suggestion on what we could replace the now removed
paragraph with to justify the work item, that would be quite helpful.

> Otherwise I support the research.

Thank you for your support, Luis. Let me know if you'd like further
changes to be made.

-- manu

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Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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Received on Thursday, 30 May 2024 14:33:03 UTC