Re: Google payment plans

On 2014-04-10 17:12, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> On 10 April 2014 16:42, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com <mailto:anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Microsoft recently set the license fee for Windows Phone to $0.
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>     That's what I in an off-list message meant with taking *extreme measures*.
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>     The W3C payment initiative requires a similarly unorthodox action to succeed
>     otherwise it it will only get the same ill fate as WebID.
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> Reports of the demise of WebID are greatly exaggerated.
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> It's the most widely deployed identity system on the web.  Including some of the FOAF cloud and also facebook graph.
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> It's only the TLS/X.509 portion (ie authentication) that still appears to be a barrier.

Yes, client-side PKI has essentially not progressed since Netscape invented back in the 90'ties.
That's why payments are stuck unless you are prepared taking *extreme measures*.

Anders



> But that has been more recently split off from the core identity piece, which is simple and self contained. 
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> I still view WebID as one of the most exciting technologies out there.  With some tweaking, it would be a great match for the identity piece of web payments.  I will certainly be using it that way.
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>     Best
>     Anders
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Received on Thursday, 10 April 2014 15:24:26 UTC