- From: Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:35:19 +0300
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: Flemming Bjerke <web@bjerke.dk>, public-fedsocweb@w3.org
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > After 3 years, I dont feel it's delivered on its promises, which promises were not delivered, and who can do (or who should have done) what to fix that? how does this feeling affect how you now think identity should be federated? should we use centralized search instead? Note that webfinger is important at the moment you action a friend request. once two people are friends, you no longer need webfinger, because you have other ways to communicate. But without webfinger, the only way to send a friend request is by using a centralized database. > and the world has moved on. i was not aware of this - who is 'the world' here? to what did these people move on? to having nothing? > I look forward to you, and other webfinger evangelists, proving me wrong. :) if you decide to stand on the sideline saying "what you're doing is never going to work" without helping to build something, then that would be a great loss for this CG. Please help with doing the actual wrong-proving! :) Concretely, what mechanism do you suggest for friend requests? Cheers, Michiel
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