6.1.4.1.3. DNAOS Entitlement-Based Knowledge Resource Sharing

Entitlement is a fundamental resource quality and principle that determines the extent of relations. By doing so, it is key to access control, to capabilities, as well as to behavior. Entitlement is the most important and fundamental relation quality.

Proper entitlement support has many advantages, starting with supporting access control with unlimited granularity. This is key, for example, in determining who or what has access to what, when, where, and how, as well as to tracking the accesses.

Virtual world environments like SecondLife and the OpenSim platform, provide a rich visualization, communication, and social networking media. They are great for communicating information, connecting individuals, and supporting collaboration.

On the other hand, they have not yet developed the structures and management for sharing, where the main difference between sharing and giving is the entitlement required for sharing.

Utopically, it would be nice if all knowledge was free for everyone at all times, and if people did not have to work. Or would it? In any case, to really enable collaboration, there is no doubt that entitlement-based sharing is required.

As 9/11 has shown, like zillions of other cases, knowledge sharing is key. As responsible organizations and as required by law, the US information agencies could not share the sensitive information that each had and that could have prevented the 9/11 events, because without an adequate knowledge sharing and tracking platform, the most responsible thing to do was not to share information, once again proving that not sharing information can be much more expensive than building an adequate knowledge sharing platform.

Knowledge sharing is key to knowledge sharing environments. Accordingly, network virtual world platforms like SecondLife and OpenSim, require complementing to fully enable knowledge sharing, and that is part of what the DNAOS technology is designed to do.

There is much more to entitlement and entitlement is only one aspect of knowledge architecture, especially useful for sharing knowledge. Entitlement is a relation quality and it can affect all relations of any kind, at any level.

Entitlement is truly a fundamental knowledge resource principle, indispensable for a knowledge sharing virtual environment like Cosmos Square.

See Also

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