From: cvs@openprivacy.orgCVS update: openprivacy/htdocs
Date: Wednesday December 13, 19100 @ 0:53
Author: fen
CVSWEB Options: -------------------
Main CVSWeb: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi
View this module: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs
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Update of /usr/local/cvsroot/openprivacy/htdocs
In directory openprivacy.org:/home/fen/projects/openprivacy/htdocs
Modified Files:
index.shtml
Log Message:
moved platform to top and include safety and trust section in it;
moved goals to 'longer term goals" at bottom
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File: openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml
CVSWEB Options: -------------------
CVSWeb: Annotate this file: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml?annotate=1.11
CVSWeb: View this file: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml?rev=1.11&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
CVSWeb: Diff to previous version: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml.diff?r1=1.11&r2=1.10
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Index: openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml
diff -u openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml:1.10 openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml:1.11
--- openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml:1.10 Tue Sep 26 13:30:40 2000
+++ openprivacy/htdocs/index.shtml Wed Dec 13 00:53:06 2000
@@ -7,23 +7,35 @@
distributed platform for creating, maintaining, and selectively sharing
profile information (e.g., a marketplace for anonymous demographic profiles)
-<h3>Goals</h3>
+<h3>Platform</h3>
-<h4>Immediate User Benefits</h4>
-The OpenPrivacy platform enables applications that will afford the user many
-direct benefits without the loss of privacy or fear that their data is being
-used inappropriately, including the ability to:
+<h4>Open Source with Open APIs</h4>
+OpenPrivacy is an open source platform with published XML data formats and
+APIs that provide mechanisms to:
<ul>
- <li>enjoy the benefits <i>(TBD: describe)</i> of personalized information
- without loss of privacy
- <li>browse (if and when they chose) offers from businesses and marketers
- <li>respond to offers directly or through third party
- <a href="/bibliography.shtml#infomediary">infomediaries</a>
- <li>maintain confidence that their profile is being used only as permitted
- <li>understand and leverage the value of their profile information
+ <li>monitor and verify proper use of personal information
+ <li>post unauthenticated (heresy) profile information anonymously
+ <li>authenticate (through opt-in verification) profile segments
+ <li>annotate any object with machine-readable opinions (grafts), thus
+ creating a general purpose and secure reputation facility
+ <li>enable opt-in profile/reputation owner contact by third parties
+ <li>most importantly, enable complete user control over her profile,
+ including providing the ability for the user to be able to
+ disassociate herself from any particular segment of profile
+ information at any time
</ul>
-again, all of this <i>without the loss of privacy or fear that your data
-is being used inappropriately</i>!
+
+<h4>Fully Distributed</h4>
+OpenPrivacy will create a networked peer-to-peer platform enabling <i>Open
+Privacy Providers</i>. This platform will provide:
+<ul>
+ <li>storage, unique naming, indexing and retrieval mechanisms for
+ profiles. (Note that this is a business opportunity in itself!)
+ <li>privacy - a user's identity cannot be determined from their profile
+ information
+ <li>security - a user can determine how their profile is to be used,
+ explicitly permitting some uses and denying others
+</ul>
<h4>Safety and Trust</h4>
<ul>
@@ -59,32 +71,23 @@
OpenPrivacy platform will be high
</ul>
-<h3>Platform</h3>
+<h3>Longer Term Goals</h3>
-<h4>Open Source with Open APIs</h4>
-OpenPrivacy is an open source platform with published XML data formats and
-APIs that provide mechanisms to:
-<ul>
- <li>monitor and verify proper use of personal information
- <li>post unauthenticated (heresy) profile information anonymously
- <li>authenticate (through opt-in verification) segments of their profile
- <li>enable opt-in profile owner contact by third parties
- <li>most importantly, enable complete user control over her profile,
- including providing the ability for the user to be able to
- disassociate herself from any particular segment of profile
- information at any time
-</ul>
-
-<h4>Fully Distributed</h4>
-OpenPrivacy will create a networked platform enabling <i>Open
-Privacy Providers</i>. This platform will provide:
+<h4>Immediate User Benefits</h4>
+The OpenPrivacy platform enables applications that will afford the user many
+direct benefits without the loss of privacy or fear that their data is being
+used inappropriately, including the ability to:
<ul>
- <li>storage, unique naming, indexing and retrieval mechanisms for
- profiles. (Note that this is a business opportunity in itself!)
- <li>privacy - a user's identity cannot be determined from their profile
- <li>security - a user can determine how their profile is to be used,
- explicitly permitting some uses and denying others
+ <li>enjoy the benefits <i>(TBD: describe)</i> of personalized information
+ without loss of privacy
+ <li>browse (if and when they chose) offers from businesses and marketers
+ <li>respond to offers directly or through third party
+ <a href="/bibliography.shtml#infomediary">infomediaries</a>
+ <li>maintain confidence that their profile is being used only as permitted
+ <li>understand and leverage the value of their profile information
</ul>
+again, all of this <i>without the loss of privacy or fear that your data
+is being used inappropriately</i>!
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