- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 10:39:43 -0500
- To: Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk>, public-webid@w3.org
- Message-ID: <d7ddeecd-d473-4aa7-90ca-7e001696d216@openlinksw.com>
On 11/8/23 9:34 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Kingsley Idehen (2023-11-08 14:57:18) >> On 11/8/23 3:34 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: >>> WebID defines a standard means by which user agents and servers >>> interact to establish a user's identity, ensuring a structured, >>> decentralized approach for identity discovery on the web. >> That definition is confusing, due to the same old issues with >> terminology conflation. "WebID" is not a catchall branding term. >> >> You have a WebID which names Agents. > Agreed. The purpose is not interaction nor discoverability, the > purpose is simply identification. > > - Jonas Others, The beauty of a WebID is as follows: Adhering to the baseline principle of using an HTTP to name Agents offers immense integrating and bootstrap utility, with regards to the broader Web. Obscuring what a WebID is takes away all of that power. As I type, there are million (if not billions) of WebIDs being generated all over the Web. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder & CEO OpenLink Software Home Page:http://www.openlinksw.com Community Support:https://community.openlinksw.com Weblogs (Blogs): Company Blog:https://medium.com/openlink-software-blog Virtuoso Blog:https://medium.com/virtuoso-blog Data Access Drivers Blog:https://medium.com/openlink-odbc-jdbc-ado-net-data-access-drivers Personal Weblogs (Blogs): Medium Blog:https://medium.com/@kidehen Legacy Blogs:http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/ http://kidehen.blogspot.com Profile Pages: Pinterest:https://www.pinterest.com/kidehen/ Quora:https://www.quora.com/profile/Kingsley-Uyi-Idehen Twitter:https://twitter.com/kidehen Google+:https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen Web Identities (WebID): Personal:http://kingsley.idehen.net/public_home/kidehen/profile.ttl#i :http://id.myopenlink.net/DAV/home/KingsleyUyiIdehen/Public/kingsley.ttl#this
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