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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?
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To: Bearded One who wrote (28110)9/14/1999 5:18:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella   of 42771
 
DigitalMe communities

I think what Scott is referring to is the capability within digitalme to set up different kinds of communities. You may want to store your financial identity with identity vault maintained by a bank.

You don't want to share that information with a group of people with whom you share an interest in scuba diving nor with some insecure scuba diving web site.

I assume that digitalme can handle this.

The question remains whether all identity vaults would have to have the same rules for rigidly identifying you as a bank. Here I feel that in licensing the technology Novell will have to differentiate in some way between the ultra-secure ecommerce use of the technology and other uses.

Think of it as two circles. In one circle is the label "ecommerce". In another circle is the label "virtual communities". A larger circle can be drawn around both circles labeled "identity vault owned by Citigroup for transaction processing", or a smaller circle can be drawn around just the virtual community circle and labeled "scuba world".

You or I could buy the components to put together "scuba world". Or even better, having begun as a "special interest card" within the secure identity vault at Citigroup, we could split off and buy our own server and set up "scuba world".

I think people like Scott have a lot of ideas here. In some sense I feel as if I'm looking into the future of the internet.
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