- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:27:05 -0400
- CC: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>, public-webpayments@w3.org, "public-rww@w3.org" <public-rww@w3.org>
On 04/21/2013 10:53 PM, Dave Longley wrote: > On 04/21/2013 05:26 PM, Henry Story wrote: >>> In other words, your false claim about a "very complicated >>> non-decentralized protocol" is still rooted in your continued >>> disinterest in understanding what we implemented. >>> >> Can you find a mail where you publically explained how this >> worked? > > Yes, I can find those and so can you. Search the foaf-protocols > list, for instance. August 10th, 2010 - Dave Longley explains the JavaScript+Flash-based WebID+TLS protocol: http://lists.foaf-project.org/pipermail/foaf-protocols/2010-August/003249.html August 13th, 2010 - Henry Story responds to the thread: http://lists.foaf-project.org/pipermail/foaf-protocols/2010-August/003287.html May 10th, 2011 - Dave Longley explains the JavaScript+Websockets-based WebID+TLS protocol: http://lists.foaf-project.org/pipermail/foaf-protocols/2011-May/004942.html There are at least 55 e-mails where Dave Longley took the time to explain the protocol publicly. You were involved in many of those conversations, but never did we get the impression that you were actually looking at or fully grasped the implementations: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alists.foaf-project.org+longley In the end, we gave up on WebID specification because, after a year of us working on spec development and implementations, the community wasn't receptive to our concerns about the usability issues behind client-side certs. It was a deal-killer for us. Luckily, the Mozilla Persona team seems to be well on their way to solving the usability problem. We'd much rather work with a group that understands that solving the login on the Web problem starts with usability. It is our opinion that getting Linked Data and public key cryptography into Persona is going to be easier than trying to fix WebID at this point in time. -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Meritora - Web payments commercial launch http://blog.meritora.com/launch/
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