Re: Terminology

At 2:07 PM -0500 12/13/01, Adam Shostack wrote:
>I think your earlier example of using geopriv in conjunction with
>inanimate carriers of targets is an example of where the split between
>carry and assert matters. The entity (say a shipping container)
>doesn't care about its location privacy, but its owner may.

It certainly matters in a legal sense. But you can't incorporate
this into the information flows affecting access decisions driven by
a privacy policy function. Once the parameters of the function have
been determined, they can be evaluated by any proxy empowered to do
so.

We should be clear that the parameters are generated by the owner of
the location data. But having established that, the owner is not
directly part of the model. A legal formalism simply doesn't have a
place in a network model.

best,

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