[OpenID] Anti-endorsement of Eran Hammer-Lahav

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Mon Dec 15 00:00:34 UTC 2008


At 3:26 PM -0800 12/14/08, Peter Williams wrote:
>Is it ethical for a person choosing an anonymous person to diss a 
>person choosing  a legal named during a community election process.

And is it at all relevant that it occurs in the context of 
anonymity/privacy vs. full public disclosure, paralleling the 
anonymous name vs. real name of those people? Would the ethics be 
different if this happened "out of the blue"?

>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.

Yes. Ideals are one thing, practicing them another. Experience will 
show us whether we can handle the ethical heights we aspire to.

-Shade



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