- From: Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 10:16:02 -0700
- To: Renato Iannella <r@iannel.la>, "public-odrl@w3.org Group" <public-odrl@w3.org>
On 4/8/16 6:02 AM, Renato Iannella wrote: > Dear CG, the W3C POE WG is now collecting Use Cases for potential > enhancements to the ODRL model. > > Please see: https://www.w3.org/2016/poe/wiki/Use_Cases for details on > the UC template and submission details. > > If you have any new business use cases that maybe relevant, then > please submit. What does the word 'business' imply in this sentence? Is it a meaningful limiter, or was it more or less accidental? The main page of the POE working group does not give this limitation where it states at the outset: "The Permissions and Obligations Expression (POE) Working Group has been chartered to create recommendations for expressing permissions and obligations statements for digital content." To my mind, important uses of such POEs include, say, whistleblowers who wish to provide data and remain anonymous (for retaliation reasons), or journalists who have discovered atrocities and wish to provide the data publicly without needing any payment, or artists/writers of various types who are in difficult social situation, and who may have something they wish distributed, possibly pseudonymously, without needing or wanting payment. I think it's arguable that any of those case are not 'business' uses. Does that mean they will not be considered as needing to be covered by ODRL, as far as the POE working group goes? As far as I'm aware, the W3C is largely funded by business, and it would not be inconsistent with other of their recent decisions and undertakings if this were true: if 'business' uses only were being considered, and the ones I've listed were overlooked as not necessary -- for business. But for society as a whole, that would not be true. So I seek clarification on this point, and hope that the quote given at the top is meant to include all important use cases of POE for society, not just 'business' ones in a limited sense that involves money transfer. An overlapping issue with this: I can't tell whether the case of 'pseudo-anonymity' is already covered or not by the comprehensively listed generic and specific use cases in "POE.UC.02", (https://www.w3.org/2016/poe/wiki/Use_Cases) even for business. It is not specifically mentioned there however. So I'll note then that 'Pseudo-Anonymity', with examples for both business and non-business scenarios, has been included as a core use case by the Verifiable Credentials Task Force. See section 4.4.3: http://w3c.github.io/webpayments-ig/VCTF/use-cases/ Pseudo-Anonymity implies that the holder of the data can choose to remain anonymous or pseudonymous in all data-control actions unless specifically required by a legal jurisdiction, say by a warrant. This splitting into 'pseudo' allows most of the advantages of anonymity to the data holder, while avoiding the problems of true full anonymity such as crime and terrorism. It seems like a happy medium that should be covered by POE (ODRL). It would be important in all three of the non-monetary uses I listed above, and others. Steven Rowat > > Renato >
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