- From: Greg FitzPatrick <greg.fitzpatrick@metamatrix.se>
- Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:44:22 +0100
- To: "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: "Www-Rdf-Interest@W3. Org" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
Dan You cite: -- Tim Berners-Lee - Consistent User Interface http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/UI Furthermore since the weekend is coming up... Since 15 or so years back, Swedish people living in metropolitan area apartments have main entrance door intercoms, so as to let visitors into the building itself. You know - like in Seinfeld. Some engineers figured that as an alternative to wiring up old apartment buildings they could use the existing telephone infrastructure. So when you ring the doorbell for somebody's apartment it actually triggers a speed dial of the apartment owner's home phone who can then identify your voice and open the outer door for you with DTMF signals. A phone owner can forward her phone calls to any other number she chooses including a cell phone and in order to foil burglars some do so even when traveling in foreign countries. Apparently burglars ring serially on doorbells to see who is and who isn't home. If anybody answers, the thieves pretend to be Jehovah's Witnesses, otherwise nobodies home and they know it is safe to break in. So a Swedish tourist sitting on the beach in Penang can answer a presumptive burglar's ring on their doorbell and pretend to be in residence, whereas the burglar will pretend to be a Jehovah's Witness and the homeowner can honestly say they are not interested one way or another. If the doorbell is connected to the telephone and the telephone is connected to the internet (since the homeowner could be equipped to wreck a nice beach in Penang) and the Internet is connected to the fax and the pager and so on, then we are redefining the intercourse perimeters of humans. I think this could lead to xxxxxxxxxxxx xp post xx xr telephone external xx xo email etc. world xx one address --> xx fax push xx xi doorbell xx xe position advantaged devices xxxxxxxxxxxx xs any other digiphernelia I have left out where one-address is the broker of media transmigration & where one-address is an anonymous (gardol?) shield to external world push. who is calling - posting - sending? x x your private life what is your purpose? x one-address x your public life Where is your TTP verification? x x your business life So basically I could phone, email, page, DMarket or ring the doorbell of Connolly@w3c.org and you could answer, read, note, discard or open your door to me according to my purpose and identification, both verified by a TTP. Could we call this universal addressing? Greg "The first entry point onto the Internet must always be a telephone booth. On the Internet you may carry on like Superman, but don't ever reveal that you also happen to be the mild mannered Clark Kent" PS. The first email I ever sent to Dan C was returned on the grounds that he did not know me!
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