Re: Use Cases and Requirements document for WebID

For what it's worth, I had flushed some ideas at [1].

Alexandre.

[1] 
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/WebID_Definition/Requirements

On 12/11/2012 10:11 AM, Henry Story wrote:
> To make some progress, I think we need a use cases and requirements document.
>
> At TPAC the main interest was to be able to work with the newly emerging
> Linked Data Platform group [1]. I don't think that LDP says anything about
> 303s so I don't think this is in fact necessarily relevant to the 303 vs hash
> debate.
>
> But it does give us a good reason to have HTTP URIs because we can then use
> that platform to do things like the following:
>
>
> Create an account
> -----------------
>
>    ( requires LDP + WebAccessControl )
>
>    1. Find an a LD Collection that is publicly available and allows creation of containers
>    2. create a container that gives default access to the creator ( perhaps using hash id )
>    3. creator can POST a WebID Profile to container with public key
>
> Restful Mail
> ------------
>
>    1. Use the WebID profile to find a Collection for sending mail like content
>    2. POST a mail like entity there after authenticating with WebID
>       ( now that gives us secure mail )
>
> Pingback
> --------
>
>     similar to Restful Mail, but simpler
>
>
> Friend of a friend Access
> -------------------------
>
>   Allow friends of friends access to some resources
>
>
>
> So we have a page for this here which we started a few years back
>
>   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/Use_Cases_and_Requirements
>
> I think it is time to work on that one again.
>
> Henry
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/hg/ldp.html
>
> Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
>

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