Ok, I'm way outa my league on this one ... but something I was thinking about on the tube last week and now i'm sitting infront of a panel talking about just this ... isn't a unique id just like a domain?
But they may as well be talking dutch ...
so my mind wanders:
There's a semi-big blogger community here and they all have their own blogg which tells us something about them as an individual. And each of these folk have thier own domain .. and in some cases, these people are better known by their blogg than their real name. mmmm....
WHOIS.
Seems these issue around unique identity etc.. are not new. Perhaps we're missing a key learning from somewhere?
Esther say on the issue os spam: privacy and spam are two seperate things - here are good technological solutions for spam .... but there's little technology that addresses privacy.
Someone else asked: "icann is doing everything possible to make sure the end user has no say - what do we do about goverance when they are determined to take the control away from the user?"