Re: "Logged in with fedsocweb"

On 8 July 2012 17:15, Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
> wrote:
> > For sake of experiment, make yourself a WebID via the service at:
> > http://id.myopenlink.net/certgen .
>
> yes, i have one, and i like webid in that it's end-to-end, but i think
> technologies like webid and pgp can by definition never be more than
> an option for power users.
>

I dont use WebID because I'm a power user.  I use WebID because it is the
system that best gives me data freedom.


> IMO we should give a default option that can work with a simple-to-use
> user address and password combination, and then describe a power user
> option based on client-side certificates.
>
> as Markus said, the default option should probably be based on the
> OpenID Connect work (which is basically the same as saying it should
> be discoverable OAuth i think - openid and oauth are sort of
> interrelated). but only saying 'nodes should implement OpenID Connect'
> is not enough to solve these two use cases, i think? Scanning over
> http://openid.net/connect/ i see no explicit mention of friend lists,
> but maybe i didn't read carefully enough?
>
> Btw, the Lanyrd example is easier to achieve, because it's about who
> you follow, which is something your node can authoratively report on.
> The AirBnb case is about who follow (and thus implicitly endorse) you,
> for which we probably need some sort of signatures? i think this is
> built into foaf?
>
>