Re: Openbadges and Mozilla Persona

Melvin,

what are your thoughts on how a SoLiD server may be integrated with a
credentials idP server...?

current SoLiD apps are not credentials compatible...?

tim.

ps: happy new year to all.  i hope the festive season was a happy one for
all.



On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 2:07 PM Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 31 December 2015 at 23:29, Fabio Barone <holon.earth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I apologize especially for the Web-Payments group for this post, as it is
>> not strictly related to web payments, but mentions a technology which has
>> been discussed in the group.
>>
>> I would like to write a project proposal for a city municipality which
>> would promote self-directed learning and citizen science.
>>
>> It is quite ambitious and may never take off.
>>
>> The idea would be heavily based on Openbadges [1].
>>
>> According to the site, Openbadges uses Mozilla Persona.
>> I think to remember that Mozilla Persona has been heavily discussed in
>> this group, and I also think to remember that there were some rumors
>> circulating of a possible demise.
>>
>> I searched the web and found contradictory information.
>> What do people here think about using Mozilla Persona for identification
>> today?
>>
>> Ideally I would like to propose an identification system run by the city
>> itself, and not by Mozilla (there may be privacy and legal issues). This
>> would probably mean having to run Mozilla Persona through the city's IT
>> infrastructure, which seems to be possible.
>>
>> Nevertheless based on the rumors I would like to know if it's wise to
>> build on that. I could very well think of some custom identification system
>> which could be linked to Openbadges.
>>
>
> Hi Fabio, very interesting topic!  Just before going into details have you
> looked at the work in the open credentials community, for example:
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ba-standard/TUbg_ok67yo
>
>
>>
>> [1] http://openbadges.org
>>
>>
>>
>