This is not a new movement, and Tim Berners-Lee's SOLID is good but not the first attempt to address this. The first I heard of something like this was in the

This is not a new movement, and Tim Berners-Lee's SOLID is good but not the first attempt to address this. The first I heard of something like this was in the Berkman Identity Group, which grew into the Identity Commons. At the time the movement was called Vendor-Relationship-Management (VRM), an inversion of the CRM practice where customers controlled the information and could be incentivized in various ways (discounts, paid, etc.) to share that information for agreed upon durations. https://www.idcommons.org/working-groups/vendor-relationship-management/ https://www.idcommons.org/working-groups/vendor-relationship... This movement was one of the drivers for the link contract work done as part of the Extensible Data Interchange (XDI) OASIS technical committee. I don't know if this is the first instance of this kind of movement, but it was the first I heard of it. Doc Searls reports another recent development: VRM is alive and well, under a new acronym that plays on B2B, Me2B. Source: http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/ http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/