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The Internet Identity Workshop starts tomorrow (Monday, December 4) and runs for the next two days, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Every time we have one of these, progress happens. It's a remarkable thing to watch, and to participate in.But the challenges remain very high. To illustrate how high, I'll start with a conversation I had one year ago, when we were driving back from a Thanksgiving visit to relatives who live 250 miles away.With the kid asleep in the back seat of the car, my wife asked me to fill her in on a subject that had preoccupied me over the last several years, yet had remained opaque to her."Tell me about this whole identity thing", she said.

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Comments (10)

tuxchick ·
...or are Doc Searls' columns full of stuff that kind of sounds neat, but isn't really comprehensible? I try, because he is beloved of many, but my brain glazes over.
jimf ·
Humm... Like make a point or something... Ah, is this the great American novel?... Are we there yet Mom?
swbrown ·
It looks like spam to me - the kind that cuts and pastes random words in order to look like a real message.
herzeleid ·
We're not to question the likes of doc - men like that are operating on a plane so far beyond us, we're not expected to make sense of their thoughts at first blush. As we meditate on doc's words though, insights will begin to emerge - shyly and tentatively at first, like a squirrel poking his head out for a quick look, but more and more solidly as we persevere, until we are finally rewarded with fresh insights into the state of the world.
dinotrac ·
herzeleid -

I humbly believe that you've confused Doc with me.
dek ·
>> humbly believe that you've confused Doc with me.

What are you talking about, dino? I took one look and scratched my head. I took another look and scratched it harder! It's your fault I now have a bloody scalp!! =:-(

To: herzeleid:

Please say it ain't so! Please say you meant doc, not dino!! ;-D

Don K.
jdixon ·
> We're not to question the likes of doc...

Well, he lost me as reader when he rejoiced about UVA's blowout of WVU in one of their better forgotten bowl games of a few years back. Call me parochial or provincial if you want, but my loyalties to home and college outweigh those to whatever Doc may profess at the given moment.
jimf ·
> We're not to question the likes of doc - men like that are operating on a plane so far beyond us, we're not expected to make sense of their thoughts at first blush

Ah yes, assume the lotus position and exhale deeply... No, don't breath in! Soon you too will attain the bliss of asphyxia. Well, how do you think doc and his ilk got there... His plane flies unpressurized at over 30k feet...
jdixon ·
> Well, how do you think doc and his ilk got there...

From what I know of Doc, I assumed large quantities of medicinal substances were involved. :)
herzeleid ·
Quoting: dino: I humbly believe that you've confused Doc with me.
Aye, there's the rub.

Quoting: dek: Please say it ain't so! Please say you meant doc, not dino!! ;-D
There may be something in what you are saying.

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