Re: RFC: tent.io (protocol for social networking)

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Daniel Harris <daniel@kendra.org.uk> wrote:
> I feel our model has to cater for multiple namespaces for contacts. Can it? Can we create an meta namespaces-for-contacts wrapper?

yes, this is exactly what i mean when i say one namespace. i mean one
'meta wrapper'. useraddress.net aims to be a search tool that can
support that meta wrapper. it supports webfinger/OStatus as well as
facebook, twitter, diaspora, friendica, and i want it to support
xmpp/buddycloud too.

> And do it quickly and quietly before someone else creates an incompatible meta namespaces-for-contacts wrapper? And maybe that won't matter actually as a wrapper should be able to wrap another wrapper, right?

correct, once we start wrapping, the more people work on wrappers the
better. we'll wrap it all into one big ball where more and more things
get included with each wrap. :) i mean, there should not be one
wrapper competing with any other wrapper, all wrappers should include
each other wrapper and vice versa. then we get one network, and we all
win.

As we already said on the phone, i personally will be working on this,
and will report my results and contributions to this mailing list.

I don't need any money myself, but i'll be more than happy to
coordinate my efforts with what other people are working on so we get
more momentum on this topic, with multiple full-time and/or part-time
people working specifically on tackling the fedsocweb problem in a
sort of a 'team work' way if you like. Maybe even splitting it up like
"you do this, you do that, we reconvene and discuss the progress in
six weeks". Indeed SWAT0 was a good start for establishing such a
coordination, but we may need some new Plan now.

That way i'm sure we can make some good progress over the coming months.

Received on Monday, 24 September 2012 15:35:28 UTC