Re: Google Turns on WebFinger

Just so you guys get a sense of WHERE this innovation came from....

originally it was part of XNS
  This protocol was to big and to much and it divided itself into
XRI and XDI

within XRI was XRDS documents
in their interaction with OpenID that format became non dependent on  
XRI's and works with URLs.

and that was then evolved with Eran's input into
XRD-simple
and finally XRD

it is it's own spec with in the XRI technical committee

XRD is at the heart of Webfiger.

I would make comments about the deeper politics of why where this  
originated from/came from is interesting/matters etc. but I will refain.

-Kaliya


On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:

> It's a big step forward, imho.  Some more commentary on this:
>
> http://webofdata.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/google-lod-cloud- 
> contributor/
>
> On 11 February 2010 23:32, Alexander Korth <alex@ttbc.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> you may have noticed that Google turned on WebFinger for its  
> accounts with public profiles [1,2]. Although I am a fan of URLs  
> rather than Emails, this is another step towards an open,  
> distributed and social web through the adoption of an open standard  
> by an important identity provider. I am happy to see that recruited  
> open web evangelists like Fitzpatrick, Messina and Smarr still are  
> able to fight for the right things.
>
> [1] http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_enables_webfinger_for_google_profiles_email_as_identity.php
> [2] https://groups.google.com/group/webfinger/browse_thread/thread/fb56537a0ed36964
>
> Greets,
> Alex
>
> --
> Alexander Korth
> www.twitter.com/alexkorth
>
>
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