Re: [GNU/consensus] [SocialSwarm-D] 9. Multiple identity (was: Socialnet_3.0 Meeting 24/25.8.2013)

[Michael Rogers]

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On 05/08/13 13:23, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>> 9) Multiple identity - you should be able to maintain multiple
>> identities
> 
> I was hoping to propose 2 aspects on this:
> 
> 9.1 _Privacy
> 
> _ It should be possible to log in to socialnet 3.0 without
> compromising a user's privacy.  For example, if I have a gmail
> address, there should be an option to log in without informing
> google.
> 
> 9.2 _Identity Freedom
> 
> _ No style of identity should be forbidden by design.   If a
> project says 'we only will accept GPG keys' or 'we only will accept
> email' or 'we only will accept http profiles' or 'we only will
> accept xmpp' or 'we only take psyc URIs' -- then you are going to
> get balkanization.  You have to be prepared to allow freedom rather
> than to censor.  It's appreciated that not everything can be
> programmed at first, but at least major ecosystems should be aimed
> to be supported.
> 
> 
> Is there anyone that cannot live with these two goals?

Hi Melvin,

There are situations where the two goals would contradict each other -
for example, logging into a system with a Facebook account is
incompatible with maintaining one's privacy.

Perhaps we should combine goal 9.2 (identity freedom) with goal 10
(protocol agnostic) to create a new goal 10: interoperability? As I've
already written on the wiki, I think it's premature to specify that
particular protocols (or client platforms, or login methods) should be
supported. Those are implementation details. We should focus at this
stage on goals that are relevant to users rather than implementers.

On the wiki I've marked several other places where I think we're
focussing prematurely on implementation details.

Cheers,
Michael

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