Re: Introduction and MyProfile question

On 5/19/12 7:03 AM, Michiel de Jong wrote:
> cool! will access control be webid-based? or would you also consider
> the possibility of putting webid on an OAuth dialog (possibly along
> with other login options), and then do the actual data access with an
> OAuth token?

We have WebID based ACLs for a very long time now. As per my last post, 
we need to resume or resurrect interop. The home page of this community 
groups (my first post) has links to relevant material.

Kingsley
> ps the faq is empty
>
> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Andrei Sambra<andrei@fcns.eu>  wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>
>> On 05/19/2012 12:23 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 18 May 2012 17:17, wyb mail<wybmail@hotmail.com
>>> <mailto:wybmail@hotmail.com>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hello all,
>>>
>>>     I have just joined the group and some other groups of W3C
>>>     As a supporter of open standards and as an Informatics student,
>>>     combining among others social sciences and ICT,
>>>     I am very curious about what you are doing and how you are working.
>>>     I hope I can contribute something to the group though I am not
>>>     really an engineer
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi&  Welcome!
>>>
>>>
>>>     First thing I noticed looking at the different sites of the
>>>     different groups:
>>>
>>>     How things are organized is not always clear.
>>>
>>>
>>> Community groups are a restively new part of the W3C, only being started
>>> in the last year.  Feedback on how we can organize things better is
>>> always welcome.
>>>
>>>     It is not easy as a new comer to jump in right away
>>>
>>>
>>> Appreciated.  Over time, I'd like to help work on how we can improve
>>> things, make it more attractive, easier for new comers.
>>>
>>>     Your group has already a nice starting page, the main page
>>>
>>>
>>> Did you mean the home page or the start page of the wiki?  I recently
>>> redid the wiki front page to a new template.
>>>
>>>     that gives some overview and a handful of important links,
>>>     but should't it be something that is standardized so that it becomes
>>>     easier to participate quickly?
>>>     so that it is clear right away what a group is doing at the moment,
>>>     what the plans are and what it is in need for?
>>>
>>>
>>> Definitely.  Community groups are less than a year old at the W3C, and I
>>> think there are almost 100 now.  Feedback on how we can make this group
>>> and others more welcoming would be appreciated.  Most of the people here
>>> are volunteers, but personally I'm definitely keen to spend at least a
>>> few hours a week improving things. :)
>>>
>>>     I looked also at the MyProfile pages:
>>>     Is it the idea that all data about a person I could see on some
>>>     pages (day of birth, address, etc.) is public?
>>>
>>>
>>> The basic idea is to use web standards (based on web architecture and
>>> HTTP URIs) to build profiles for people that can communicate with other
>>> networks, and log in to applications.
>>>
>>> I think long term some data will be public, some only you can see, and
>>> some only available to your friends (a bit like facebook).
>>>
>>> Maybe Andrei Sambra (who wrote my profile) can give some more detail...
>>>
>> The whole point of MyProfile is to provide better privacy through both
>> physical and access control over your data. At the moment, the profile data
>> is public, since the project serves as a demo for several web standards.
>> However, I am working on providing fine grained control for privacy policies
>> but it takes time to do it right. You will find more information on the
>> project webpage: http://myprofile-project.org/
>>
>> Andrei
>>>
>>>     Kind regards, Wyb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>


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