> I figured at the time it was easier to reuse a community than to form a new one and people went along with it. don't overgeneralize from that :) On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 11:18 AM Johannes Ernst <johannes.ernst@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 19, 2023, at 02:43, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Actually Yadis was originally based on Linked Data, specifically FOAF. > XRD/JRD came a bit later. Hence supporting 2 different standards today. > > http://lj-dev.livejournal.com/683939.html > > > You are pointing to the project briefly called Yadis initiated by Brad > Fitzpatrick at LiveJournal that he renamed OpenID shortly after > announcement. > > Reference: https://lists.danga.com/pipermail/yadis/2005-May/000027.html > > I am pointing to the project called Yadis that, with the consent of Brad > and David Recordon, reused the name and the mailing list he had established > for the previous project, to focus on metadata discovery for http > identifiers used as identifiers for people, and which is what > https://yadis.org/ still refers to (I take responsibility for the name > confusion, I figured at the time it was easier to reuse a community than to > form a new one and people went along with it.) > > Reference: > https://lists.danga.com/pipermail/yadis/2005-October/001511.html > > Cheers, > > > > Johannes. > > Johannes Ernst > Blog: https://reb00ted.org/ > FediForum: https://fediforum.org/ > Dazzle: https://dazzle.town/ > >
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