Re: Analyzing the success of LOD

On 2/3/09 15:23, Daniel Schwabe wrote:
> On 02/03/2009 10:55, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> ...
>> De-referencable URIs, Negotable Representation of Resource
>> Descriptions, and other elements of the Linked Data Web's FORCE as are
>> simply there to be tapped by current/next generation of innovators on
>> the Web and/or across the Enterprise en route to solving real
>> problems. Examples ares would include:
>>
>> 1. Identity (decentralized and non-repudiatable variety via foaf+ssl
>> which is ultimately going to be sparql+ssl) -- then we can fix mail,
>> commenting and other critical aspects of the Web and Internet
> Hmmm, are you proposing this as an alternative to, say, OpenID? Can you
> elaborate on this a bit more?

I for one would be upset to see foaf+ssl promoted as a rival to OpenID. 
The two approaches should play well in the same environment, I hope. For 
example, logging into my OpenID provider with SSL certs...

Dan

Received on Monday, 2 March 2009 14:40:26 UTC