- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 09:55:31 +0000
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- CC: "<public-lod@w3.org>" <public-lod@w3.org>
Thanks Kingsley. I agree with all that, but… On 7 Aug 2013, at 02:07, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: > On 8/6/13 5:58 PM, Hugh Glaser wrote: >> Actually, this whole thing seems to me (I now realise) nothing to do with WedID per se. > > WebID is just a moniker for an HTTP URI that denotes an Agent. It's more compact that saying "Personal HTTP URI" or "Agent HTTP URI" etc.. > > In addition, a WebID can be used with a variety of authentication protocols. The thinking behind the WebID+TLS protocol simply boils down to using TLS which is widely implemented across existing user agents. > >> It is about creating and editing FOAF files. > > Yes! It is basically a showcase for web-like structured data endowed with machine-comprehensible entity relationship semantics aka. RDF based Linked Data. I'm not really talking about showcases - I want to be beyond that. I want tools that let me give this stuff to my friends at home, so it gets used! Best Hugh > > You have a local profile graph (persisted to your local keystore) and you have another published to a publicly acceptable location. Both graphs are comprised of identity oriented claims. The authentication protocol boils down to testing the degree to which the claims are mirrored, as the basis for trust. > > If you open up the certificate used to sign my mails you'll notice a number of links. One example is <http://id.myopenlink.net/certgen/key/8758> which denotes the certificate's public key. You can follow-your-nose from there by clicking that link, as per usual. > > Circa. 2013 we have storage services such as Dropbox, Amazon S3, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, Box.NET etc.., all of these can host a profile document that describes claims that mirror those stored in your local keychain hosted X.509 cert. You simply use the SAN slot to connect these profile documents via a WebID and the leave the rest to logic expressible in queries delivered over HTTP e.g., SPARQL ASK :-) > > > > -- > > 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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