Re: Proposal - Personal Identity API

On 17 December 2015 at 13:26, Stian Soiland-Reyes <
soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

> Excerpts from Binyamin's message of 2015-12-12 19:50:31 +0000:
> > Currently many apps uses SSO (Single sign-on,
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_sign-on) with different APIs and
> > protocols. It still requires server-side authentications.
> > Browsers/OSs has to validate the main personal identification data
> > (email/phone). Share the data after user acceptation similar to other
> APIs
> > like Geolocation API (demo http://html5demos.com/geo).
> > I am only wondering if it in any way could be used in save way as a
> Signin
> > authentication? Maybe by uses some encrypted validation key?
>
> You'll probably be interested to read about WebID:
>
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/
>
> FOAF+SSL is probably also relevant:
>
> http://www.w3.org/wiki/Foaf+ssl


FYI foaf + ssl was rebranded to be called webid:

http://webid.info/

It's now being used to power the Solid platform, I made a small gitbook
with more details

https://melvincarvalho.gitbooks.io/solid/content/

IMHO this is identity and the decentralized web done right.  Whether anyone
really still wants decentralization, I dont really know.  But I'll
certainly want to use it.


>
>
> and obviously OAuth:
>
> http://oauth.net/
>
>
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> Stian Soiland-Reyes, eScience Lab
> School of Computer Science
> The University of Manchester
> http://soiland-reyes.com/stian/work/
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