Re: Identity interoperability

On 13 Nov 2012, at 15:11, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:

> On 11/13/12 7:44 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>> On 13 November 2012 13:28, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
>> On 11/13/12 6:43 AM, Henry Story wrote:
>> Hi as promised during our last teleconf [1] I put together an Identity Interoperability wiki page
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>>    http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/Identity_Interoperability
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>> This is the beginning of something that could end up becoming a very large project, so it is
>> clearly just a beginning, with some initial pointers.
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>>      Henry
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>> [1] http://www.w3.org/2012/11/09-webid-minutes.html
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>> Great Wiki doc!
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>> OpenID is based on XRD documents, you can make whatever claim you want via the content of said document type.
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>> Example: http://linkeddata.informatik.hu-berlin.de/uridbg/index.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkingsley.idehen.net%2Fods%2Fdescribe%3Furi%3Dacct%3Akidehen%40openlinksw.com&useragentheader=&acceptheader= .
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>> Nice page!
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>> So the "principle" in OpenID terms would be the "subject", in this case acct:kidehen@openlinksw.com using webfinger?
> Yes.
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> 'Principal' and 'Subject' are synonyms re., terminology used to denote what an identity claims graph describes.

I don't think so.

In Java the class Subject is reserved for the collection of all the different principals that have been proven refer to an agent. I think therefore that subject is the thing identified by any principal, not the string that is the principal.  Subject is I think widely understood to be the subject of a connection, the agent itself. Principal is a very technical term, which I use here to identify the string identifier itself.


I have defined Principal much more carefully here 
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/Identity_Interoperability#logical_relationships_of_principals



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