- From: Ben Laurie <benl@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:57:13 +0100
- To: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Cc: public-webid@w3.org, Andrei Sambra <andrei@fcns.eu>
On 26 September 2012 13:50, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote: > On 26 Sep 2012, at 13:59, Ben Laurie <benl@google.com> wrote: >> The easy interface works well only if you are happy with a small >> number of identities - i.e. linkability across almost everything. >> Also, note that this kind of thing was tried with Microsoft's >> InfoCards and also with OpenID. It didn't go so well. > > Microsoft's info cards was a centralised solution I believe. Here we are using only open web standards: HTTP, TLS, RDF, Linked Data. Which allows everybody - individuals as well as large institutions to participate. We are not excluding anyone here. No, infocards were decentralised. But that's really not the point - the point was that they involved similar choices amongst a large number of possibilities, and it turned out to be hard to use. OpenID has a similar problem (its what they call the Nascar problem).
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