Re: the possible impact of future changes in webfinger (was Re: Anonymity and multiple identities)

On 7/9/12 5:22 AM, Michiel de Jong wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Melvin Carvalho
> <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> IMHO, fedsocweb forking away from the webfinger effort would lead to
>>> total chaos and nothing getting built, and i think you know that, so
>>> it puzzles me a bit why you keep doing this, it seems so destructive?
>> It's really up to each individual project to choose their stack and build
>> projects around that.
> Sure, each individual project can choose their own stack, but there
> are several projects here willing to cooperate in all choosing the
> *same* stack, so that we can all federate with each other.
>
>
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If all the systems use URIs that resolve to useful information that's 
human/machine discernible, everything will be fine. The host OS is the 
Web, the computer is the Internet.

Operating systems provide a bridge between programs and computer 
resources. They key technology for that is URIs :-)

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Received on Monday, 9 July 2012 12:31:19 UTC