- From: Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>
- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:17:48 +0100
- To: public-webid@w3.org
On 2016-11-23 12:40, Gabriel Lucas wrote: > Hello, > > We are designing the new website for a public cultural institution. For > the logging system we are evaluating various options, one is Web-ID. > > The web would be based in Drupal 7, there is a module created 5 years > ago, that has not been updated in the last 3 years. > https://www.drupal.org/project/webid > > We are wondering how much Web-Id is being used around. > > Do you know of any good use case where it is being used? > Could you give us some advice? > > Thank you very much, > > Best regards, > > Gabriel Lucas Hi Gabriel, https://dokie.li/ uses WebID in combination with TLS. People and organisations having their own identity at a location within their authority is integral towards a decentralised and federated Social Web. That can certainly come across as a bunch of buzzwords and with a lot of complications, but in essence WebID encourages a mechanism to fetch a resolvable resource and then extraction of its attributes and values in a uniform way. It happens to be a globally unique and resolveable identifier. Systems that use something like that places focus on wide reuse across applications and data integration. This is in contrast to traditional system or service specific internal identifiers. So, in the case of WebID, the system would use and expose something like 'http://example.org/alice#i' to the world (or even just to itself), as opposed to 'alice' or 'abc123' as the canonical identifier. I think it is important, and it is actually decoupled from authentication mechanism it can work with. It also plays an important role in access controls. -Sarven http://csarven.ca/#i
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