- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:39:22 -0400
- To: public-rww@w3.org
- Message-ID: <5027DC3A.9080205@openlinksw.com>
On 8/12/12 7:54 AM, Jan Wrobel wrote: > I don't understand why you call Persona 'a silo'. Unlike for example > Facebook ids, Persona is a distributed system. Every email provider > can run its own verifier. If you have your own domain and a mail > server you can also run a verification server and be in total control > of your identity. A silo is anything that's platform specific i.e., anything that isn't interoperable via standards. For Web oriented technology one has to consider the Web as the host operating system while the Internet is the computer. Thus, if a solution doesn't deliver interoperability at the Web infrastructure level its a silo. There shouldn't be any notion of email identity. You should just have identity and its verification should be the product of leveraging infrastructure of the host operating system. BrowserID or any derivative is unfortunately a silo. -- 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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