Re: Web Identity specification and Social Web

On 2/24/14 7:23 AM, Manu Sporny wrote:
> On 02/24/2014 04:27 AM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
>> >The Web Identity specification which is being developed by the W3C
>> >Web Payments CG seems to be interesting for the Social Web
>> >communities as well:
>> >
>> >Web Identity 1.0 Draft Community Group Specification 21 February 2014
>> >https://web-payments.org/specs/source/web-identity
> Keep in mind that the spec name is a pretty terrible one, we're trying
> to come up with a better one like "Identity Assertions" (bad) "Entity
> Assertions" (bad) or "Web Assertions" (meh).
>
> The spec focuses on asserting statements about a particular entity like:
>
> This is my name.
>
> This is my government issued identification information.
>
> This is an assertion by my local government of my home address.
>
> It's also aligned with the Activity Streams 2.0 work (one of your input
> documents for the Social Web WG) since they're using JSON-LD as well.
>
> The identity assertions spec adds simple digital signatures to the
> information above as well as a read/write capability to identity URLs.
>
Manu,

The attributes you've outlined above constitute Identification, based on 
verifiable Identity. Thus, you are referring to a Web Identification 
spec whereby a collection of Identity Claims (as you've listed above) 
are used as the basis for verifiable Identification of an entity denoted 
by an Identifier.

[1] 
http://id.myopenlink.net/public_home/KingsleyUyiIdehen/Public/YouID/IDcard_Google_140220_175342/140220_175342_profile.ttl#identity 
-- HTTP URI that denotes by G+ Persona

[2] 
http://id.myopenlink.net/public_home/KingsleyUyiIdehen/Public/YouID/IDcard_Google_140220_175342/index.html 
-- HTML based Identity Card for G+ Persona  (note: this also exists in 
Turtle, JSON-LD, RDFa, and Microformats formats, and exposure is via a 
plethora of discovery patterns that includes use of <link/> relations in 
<head/>)

[3] http://t.co/om6TdD9pRr -- Linked Data principles adherence 
verification of the personal URI (that denotes my G+ persona) used in my 
Identity Card (JSON-LD document) claims

[4] http://t.co/hCGmKSho1j -- Ditto, but using a Turtle based Identity Card

[5] http://bit.ly/1piuOsl -- Identity Claims verification using 
WebID+TLS protocol (of course, this could be another protocol since 
personal URIs and authentication protocols MUST be loosely coupled) .

Note, the following are loosely coupled:

1. Web Identity spec -- this is just about entity denotation e.g., a 
WebID (which is just an HTTP URI used to denote entities of type: 
foaf:Agent)
2. Web Identification -- this covers identity claims associated with a 
WebID (for instance) or other Identifiers (e.g., those supported by OAuth)
3. Web Identification Verification -- this would be about protocols for 
verifying identity claims.

Links:

[1] http://bit.ly/1elKLcn -- WebID
[2] http://bit.ly/1bD2eZs -- Identifier .

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