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To: PJ Strifas who wrote (34850)	11/14/2000 11:24:07 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Peter...... >>By the way, you can't have a sliced and diced Personal Directory where my information is fragmented across the entire Internet! Can you IMAGINE the synchronization traffic with a few 100,000 people using this technology! It would bring the internet to its knees no matter how much bandwidth you through at it. Remember, the more bandwidth you add, the more uses I can find for it so in essence, there's never enough bandwidth! You can't do it Fred. That type of systematic fragmentation would cause way too many problems or at least overhead. See, you don't really understand the technology but you make wild claims about it's uses. You need SOME centralization not for power or control [that fits your theories] but for CONVENIENCE! I will develop a service to "host" your copy of Personal Directory - I don't own it, YOU DO. I merely rent diskspace to you and offer you accessibility! You keep the "master" copy on your local system (so you can maintain your ownership) and create a "copy" on the hosted service. Now this copy can be accessed by anyone you create a relationship with. That's a much more workable model IMO.>> Someone's going to do this Peter. I'm working with one group right now out of FLA that's moving in this direction. Centralized control over personal data will be forced to evolved and open up as individual empowerment, awareness and demand for personal privacy/security grows. The more you slice up and fragment personal data the higher the level of privacy and security. This will run completely counter to the Old model which assumed centralized control. But I realize we have to start with centralized control. Lastly, don't take whatever I may say using your name defensively. I know you and Scott and others may have a problem with the way I communicate. I understand, but this is just the way I am. I will guarantee you this: I won't ever get angry or negatively defensive with whatever you write. This may not come across in what's actually written, but I don't carry ill will in my heart. Sometimes a phone call or a face to face meeting helps to add this third dimension that's lacking on boards like this. My fault is that I have a very hard time hedging, limiting, defining and conditionalizing what I write and how I come across. This is just the way I am. And I apologize if you take this the wrong way. Whether you like me stating this or not is immaterial, but I do think you'd be great getting your hands deeper and deeper into this. Peace. GO!!