On 10/24/12 11:20 AM, Henry Story wrote: > > On 24 Oct 2012, at 17:09, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com > <mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> >> - webfinger does indeed give a method to dereference a mailto: >> uri, which could be used for a WebID protocol. >> >> >> the current draft of webfinger allows dereferencing a mailto: URI ... >> in fact it is anyURI > > WebFinger is a dereferencing protocol, but not an authentication > protocol, and as such it could possibly be used with WebID over TLS. > > Henry > > Social Web Architect > http://bblfish.net/ > Henry, We already use it with acct: or mailto: scheme URIs that serve as WebIDs in our implementation of the WebID Authentication Protocol (WAP). Basically, these URIs resolve to entity-attribute-value graphs expressed in XRD or JRD format which we then transform into RDF graphs. The aforementioned transformation adds the requisite entity relationship semantics required for WAP conformance. This simply requires implementers to take responsibility for the following: 1. Webfinger protocol incorporation for URI resolution 2. RDF graph generation from XRD or JRD resources . -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder & CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
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