Digital Identities Can Tame the Wild, Wild Web

摘要

Controlled data exchange is the next important growth phase of the Web and related technologies. Digital identity technology provides a foundation to realistically model real-world entities, their attributes, and the exchange of data between them as individual data authorities in a trusted data exchange environment. What if you were asked to share your financials while visiting your doctor for a bad case of the flu? Or conversely, asked to hand over your medical history before the bank agrees to grant you a home loan? In the real world, an individual plays many different roles in the course of his daily activities. People purchase homes where they are first the "buyer" and then the "owner," become an "employee" to pay back the money they borrowed for the house, and so on. These roles define the relationships people have with society.