:Why can't a person have a URI? In the not so distant future, people may more likely be uniquely identified using combinations of biometric data. I guess we could indirect a URI to this. It's more interesting to ask why we would want someone to have a URI at all. What could have a URI or a URI pointing to a set of URI's thereof, is the set of data that is identified as belonging or pertaining to an individual. Of course that implies a radical rethink about how we store and retrieve data, and just as fundamentally, how we decide who owns such data. Currently, most of the data about a person is not owned by that person. The most interesting work done in this regard is recent times is probably Eric Freeman's Lifestreams. -BillReceived on Monday, 6 March 2000 04:29:33 UTC
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