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Subject: Re: [emergency] Identity and Authority ( was RE: CAP Visualization...)
I certainly don't mind. I'm overdue for a dunking in the security
specifications pool. It's gonna havta wait till at least next Monday,
though. My plate is overflowing. So much so, in fact that I am not
gonna get my treasured grant proposals out on time. sigh. I'll live,
but I have to do better at this.
Ciao,
Rex
At 11:14 AM -0600 6/9/04, Carl Reed wrote:
>Hope you do jot mind my opening this dialogue up again :-) A couple of
>thoughts on work being done by other standards/specifications organizations
>that could be used to address (solve?) the issue of identity and authority.
>
>In late May, I attended a seminar on DRM (Digital Rights Management). There
>was much discussion on Rights Expression Languages. Rights expression
>languages (RELs) are emerging in the information community that support
>different aspects of the digital access environment -- licensing, payments,
>web material, use control, access, etc. One such language is Open Digital
>Rights Language (ODRL). ODRL is a general-purpose language that allows, but
>does not require, some actionable control over resource use. It was designed
>as an open standard for industry and community use.
>
>The other place to is the Geography and Privacy (GeoPriv) working group of
>the IETF. The mission of this WG is to define encoding rules for privacy and
>authority. Any location payload, such as a CAP message, would be "wrapped"
>the a GeoPriv privacy encoding capsule. The intent is to provide protection
>from unauthorized access and use of location information as it pertains to
>privacy.
>
>Cheers
>
>Carl
>
>