Re: Position Paper for W3C Workshop on Identity

There seems to be the imputation that go club dynamics will work for the web.  This us the pgp story (cast with go rules).





On Apr 27, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

> 
> On 28 Apr 2011, at 00:23, peter williams wrote:
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>> So, all it comes down to is, as relying party, pick your favorite go club?
>> Is all we offer: just form up your own link graph?
> 
> If go had no rules of quality then their ranking would have no meaning.  Try
> going to a go club and pretending you are a higer or lower rank than you really
> are. You will see it will be evident very soon.
> 
>> Then, on that basis, there are a n million parties claiming to be
>> authorities,
> 
> People can claim to be authorities, but that does not make them so.
> 
>> all with nothing to substantiate their claims. It's all just a
>> mouth off - including the infamous Oxford School of Auto Engineering (a
>> technical school teaching motor mechanics, leeching off the Oxford name,
>> apparently). Perhaps you prefer the Polish national CA, because at least is
>> Polish (vs American). Perhaps one has a pretty rainbow flag. Pick something
>> that fits with your sense of identity?
> 
> Who said that anything that anybody says goes? I said universities were good
> at giving information about the degrees someone has, and go clubs good at telling
> the ranking of players. And that you are good at telling who your friends are.
> 
> Why do you try to distort what I am saying?
> 
> 
> Henry
>

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