interesting concept I hadn't thought of... digital identities intended to cover non-humans.
Link: Non-human identities.
Johannes Ernst of Netmesh LID posted a comment supportative of our claims-based definition of digital-identity, and went on to suggest:
"Another exercise that might be worthwhile is to look at the use of the term "(digital) identity" with subjects other than people. If such subjects (a shipment, a car part, a bank transaction, a bank note, a company, ...) had digital identities (and some of them do, I would think), can the same definition be used?"
That is really one of the key reasons the definition talks about digital subjects rather than simply "persons".
To follow Johannes' proposed route of inquiry, let me start with a familiar example - a web site representing a company. We then need to ask if it make sense to think of the digital identity of the web site being expressed as:
"... a set of claims made by one digital subject about... another digital subject."
This is a case with which we have had a lot of experience: it desc
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