IndieAuth, was Re: W3C - Social Web Working Group

On 07/21/2014 01:18 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
> On 2014-07-21 18:39, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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>> On 21 July 2014 18:29, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>     On 2014-07-21 18:23, Sandro Hawke wrote:
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>>         On 07/21/2014 12:20 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
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>>             By pure accident I found this:
>>             http://www.w3.org/Social/WG
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>>             Anders
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>>         It's also being announced on the front page, w3.org 
>> <http://w3.org>, and in various
>>         media, today.
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>>                 -- Sandro
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>>     It doesn't appear that WebID is a part of this effort.
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>>     This is somewhat strange because a Social Web without a login 
>> seems like a moderately clever idea.
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>> You need to have a paradigm shift, that webid is nothing to do with 
>> login.
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> Apparently not.  We are going to build the decentralized Social Web on 
> Facebook Connect then?
> This seems at odds with at least one of the Chair's missions:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNmKO7Gr4TE
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The point is that identity is separable, and so it has been 
separated.    Otherwise it would be too big a piece of work for one WG.

Your oblique mention of Tantek reminds me, I don't know if this group 
has ever talked about the solution he's currently endorsing, IndieAuth:

    https://indieauth.com/

It's fascinatingly minimalist.

         -- Sandro


> Anders
> puzzled, very puzzled
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>> WebID facilitates a huge number of use cases, which get built out bit 
>> by bit.
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>> For example hetrogeneous friending is something that's trivial to do 
>> with WebID (just add a hyperlink to your profile with the other 
>> friend's webid) but very hard to do in many social web systems.
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>> The value of webid is from unexpected reuse, because of the freedom 
>> it offers.
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>>     Anders
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