- From: Pindar Wong <pindar.wong@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 08:39:00 +0800
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: Erik Ros <mail@erikros.me>, W3C Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAM7BtUpw5GF67KXJwn4c8F3pQ6gbR3+zAXxG-_S6-ry2BA0u2Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 9 June 2015 at 01:05, Pindar Wong <pindar.wong@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 9 June 2015 at 00:32, Pindar Wong <pindar.wong@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> fwiw >>>> >>>> https://keybase.io/pindar >>>> >>> >>> Nice, you may also be interested in onename e.g.: >>> >>> https://onename.com/chrisellis >>> >> >>> Also cointains a PGP key, but they have said they may be interested in >>> implementing linked data, in particularl, webid. >>> >>> Unfortunately it's also proprietary. I'd love to see a free software >>> solution like this, that also includes web standards. >>> >> >> I fully agreed! >> >> I'm of the view that the blockchain-related community may be suffering >> from the 'galapagos syndrome.' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_syndrome> and could learn >> alot from both Web and IETF standards. In fairness, the group is only 6 >> years old and we could find a better way to work together somehow. Perhaps >> by individual participation first and experience sharing where relevant >> (e.g. perhaps adopting a 'multi-stakeholder' approach in their ecosystem >> build). That said the energy in the disparate communities appears to me to >> be *amazing* -- both fresh and exciting... reminds me of the early days of >> the Internet where innovation appears to be happening *faster* (if only >> because we have the Internet to build on). >> > > Yes, it takes time to understand what web standards offer. I spoke to > slush from satoshi labs and he said that only after building mytrezor > website did the advantages of the web become more apparent. Even among > people who want to follow standards, interop is hard. Having spent the > last 1-2 years testing interop, you find people always leave out 1-2 > details that become critical, and 99% will not prioritize fixing them. The > main problem is that people think at least one of the W3C specs are wrong, > and will insert their own idea, here and there. The horrible truth is that > timbl and the w3c had all the right specs all along, just no one (apart > from kingsley) read the details and implemented them. > > The only community to date I've found that is really interested in interop > is webid, but even there every webid has its own unique challenges. > +1 Beautifully said. Stable ecosystem builds are hard when it's not clear that interoperable standards are the keystone species. Genius is indeed 99% perspiration to avoid problems ... not fix them. p. > >> >> fwiw. >> >> https://onename.com/pindar >> >> p >> >> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> p. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:09 AM, Melvin Carvalho < >>>> melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 8 June 2015 at 21:01, Erik Ros <mail@erikros.me> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> I haven't seen this initiative pass the list (sorry if it has): >>>>>> >>>>>> https://keybase.io/ >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> It's been around a while, and world citizen uses it. The interface is >>>>> good, and it's something pgp has needed for a while. A couple of issues >>>>> are that it's proprietary and it doesnt use linked data, so scalabiltiy is >>>>> an issue. Other than that, a promising website. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Kind regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> Erik >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
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