Re: Network identity / brand

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
> Yes, URI everything and everything is Cool!

sure, but would you propose it as a brand? Reading back, we've
mentioned the following "brands" for the identity of fedsocweb as a
network, both as candidates for the phrase "Are you on X?" and for the
phrase "What is your X?":

fedsocweb
FedSocNet
Web
FSW
FedSocWeb ID
Node
WebID
NetID
user address
URI (not sure if this was a serious proposal or just a remark)

and for the identifier string format we have discussed:
user@host
http(s)://host/path/to/user
either user@host or http(s)://host/path/to/user
=markus, =>markus, !markus, @<nickname>
=markus.com, <markus.com>, %markus.com, *markus.com, markus*com

and i would like to add an option (for discussion's sake): firstName
lastName [city [other details]], that's to say, plain text search. We
will need to federate search anyway, so why not just do it now? nodes
can create an index of their own users, for each one listing
firstName, lastName, city, language (skype uses this as a search
criterium and i think it's brilliant), avatar, and globally user
identifier string. This can be an atom/rss feed, in which case we can
add a command that means 'user deleted', and maybe we want to
differentiate explicitly between new users and profile updates.
Putting this data together for multiple nodes, if each node has the
data of each other node, you can rehash it to be a prefix -> record
search for each field, and you have essentially created 5 distributed
hash tables (DHT), one per search term.

Nodes would have to pro-actively follow each other in order to be part
of the same DHT. But of course we could set up a public hub that makes
this easier, just like superfeedr runs a public PuSH node. And if we
do it as linked data, then everybody can index it, and these search
results can naturally become part of what Google calls its Knowledge
Graph. Just like the rest of the web.

I think federating user search is what will make our network "feel"
like a network.

Received on Monday, 9 July 2012 05:51:33 UTC