- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:43:26 -0400
- To: public-fedsocweb@w3.org
- Message-ID: <4FF99C8E.20107@openlinksw.com>
On 7/7/12 3:08 PM, Michiel de Jong wrote: > Hi Kingsley, > > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: >> To conclude, neither http: nor acct: based agent URIs monopolize federated >> identity. > that's a valid standpoint, and if there are IdP's (identity providers) > who prefer to offer http: URLs instead of implementing webfinger, then > we can allow both. > > What we do have to decide IMO is what data format the document found > there should have. For webfinger we have XRD and JRD, and for > http-based identities i think it's mainly foaf, right? Typically, yes. But for folks like us (OpenLink Software) we just don't care, we work with either :-) Kingsley > > examples: > > http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/xrd/v1.0/xrd-1.0.html#examples > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6415#page-14 > > http://wiki.foaf-project.org/w/DescribingAPerson > > there's also a microformat to describe a vCard: > > http://microformats.org/wiki/jcard > > and an rdf vcard option: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf/ > > i think ideally we want to support all common formats, especially at > the beginning, to get as much federation as we can, and then later we > can deprecate some of them? > >> We need to stop preoccupying ourselves with implementation details. > i agree we should try to look beyond syntactical issues, and just use > anything that works, although if we want interoperability then we will > have to make sure implementation details of server A are compatible > with those of server B, of course. > > anyway, i think with this i could write up a wiki page about identity. > we can then make other wiki pages about how to deal with activity > streams, with private messages, and with i don't know, groups, and > that way create a bit of a knowledge base describing what people are > doing. once we've described, we can analyse, cull, and in the long > run, prescribe. > > is that useful? > > > -- 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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