Eskimo Snow and Scottish Rain: The Social Implications of Schemas

[ via Robin Cover's XML/SGML page ] XML protocols such as the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P,) Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS,) and the Information and Content Exchange (ICE) all automate, to greater and lesser extents, things which look and feel like contracts (what I let you do with my data. Until you can make a lawyer out of a Turing Machine, if you’re designing a schema, then you better pay attention to it’s legal implications.

At the ICE summit, one thing that was said about the subject was the ICE authoring group avoided encoding business rules in machine readable form, and instead opted to allow pointers to natural language business rules.

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