[OpenID] Anti-endorsement of Eran Hammer-Lahav

Peter Williams pwilliams at rapattoni.com
Sun Dec 14 23:26:01 UTC 2008


Im going to fly around on planes for 10+h now. I’ll try to formulate my illustrious position on the central issue:-

Is it ethical for a person choosing an anonymous person to diss a person choosing  a legal named during a community election process.

Obviously, like any ethical issue, it’s a community standard at stake at the end of the day. As Openid heads for the governance and assurance space of identity management, this is only a pre-cursor of many more issue to come, of similar complexity and emotion.

All good signs, tho.


From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 2:10 PM
Cc: general at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Anti-endorsement of Eran Hammer-Lahav

On 12/14/2008 11:25 PM, SitG Admin:

Of course the problem with your position is that you seems to be the

only person in this entire community who hides behind an alias.





What is being hidden? Explain the value of knowing some "real" name,



Perhaps the same value it has for you for not disclosing who you are. Generally nobody cares if it's Eddy ,Eran or SitG. Publicly going with your name has perhaps something to do with upfront honesty.





People who care about privacy may simply have not seen any...



Anybody has the right to remain anonymous (right, up to a certain limit usually). But with it comes a price - apparently a price you aren't willing to pay either. Common, be a man and stop whining! Respect the rules the foundation and the law set up and pay the price you have to pay for your conscious decision (which nobody forced upon you) without inciting with heroic anti-endorsements and slandering of a real name from the side-lines. You only allow yourself to slander other names because you remained anonymous - what a hero! If you would have balls you'd do that as a person, not as an alias!

Regards



Signer:

Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd.<http://www.startcom.org>

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