Re: the possible impact of future changes in webfinger (was Re: Anonymity and multiple identities)

On 7/7/12 3:08 PM, Michiel de Jong wrote:
> Hi Kingsley,
>
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
>> To conclude, neither http: nor acct: based agent URIs monopolize federated
>> identity.
> that's a valid standpoint, and if there are IdP's (identity providers)
> who prefer to offer http: URLs instead of implementing webfinger, then
> we can allow both.
>
> What we do have to decide IMO is what data format the document found
> there should have. For webfinger we have XRD and JRD, and for
> http-based identities i think it's mainly foaf, right?

Typically, yes. But for folks like us (OpenLink Software) we just don't 
care, we work with either :-)

Kingsley
>
> examples:
>
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/xrd/v1.0/xrd-1.0.html#examples
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6415#page-14
>
> http://wiki.foaf-project.org/w/DescribingAPerson
>
> there's also a microformat to describe a vCard:
>
> http://microformats.org/wiki/jcard
>
> and an rdf vcard option:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf/
>
> i think ideally we want to support all common formats, especially at
> the beginning, to get as much federation as we can, and then later we
> can deprecate some of them?
>
>> We need to stop preoccupying ourselves with implementation details.
> i agree we should try to look beyond syntactical issues, and just use
> anything that works, although if we want interoperability then we will
> have to make sure implementation details of server A are compatible
> with those of server B, of course.
>
> anyway, i think with this i could write up a wiki page about identity.
> we can then make other wiki pages about how to deal with activity
> streams, with private messages, and with i don't know, groups, and
> that way create a bit of a knowledge base describing what people are
> doing. once we've described, we can analyse, cull, and in the long
> run, prescribe.
>
> is that useful?
>
>
>


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