On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Nathan <nathan@webr3.org> wrote: > Henry Story wrote: > >> You can add many more auth systems onto this list, as you come up with >>> them. >>> >> >> It's nice to see Melvin list all these new possibilities. Given that >> he never implements any of these protocols, and only suggests >> that others develop and implement them, his enthusiasm is always the same >> as on the first days of WebID, and clearly will still be in 10 years time. >> > > Henry, I'm surprised at you, Melvin has tirelessly promoted and > evangelised WebID for years, most of the people working on it, implementing > it, and using it, were introduced to it by Melvin. He understands the web > specs, the intersection of the and how they all fit together in the bigger > picture. > > What is the point in a specification if nobody is aware of it, what is the > point of implementations if nobody uses them? I also seem to remember > Melvin working on the very first implementations of the spec and creating > some of the first publicly available libraries for it. > yes, Melvin published the first WebID lib in PHP in the early days: https://github.com/melvincarvalho/libAuthentication and deserves credit for that. He's been pushing for WebID also, he doesn't deserve such criticism. Steph.
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