Re: Final Report Editing

On 8 October 2010 18:48, Mischa Tuffield <mischa.tuffield@garlik.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have made a bunch of language fixes to the wiki (which there are quite a
> lot of to be frank), which I am not going to elaborate upon here, find below
> a list of concerns/comments I have which I feel should be addresses before
> the final report freezes:
> I have also inject a bunch of comments into the wiki search for :
> (@@QUESTION
> 1. Webfinger is mentioned in parts of the document, but doesn't get
> described in full in section: Identity Standards, and probably should get
> its own section. Currently there is a bit of text in the OpenID section, I
> think it should get its own subheading.
> 2. Para 3 of the "State of the Social Web", states that OpenID came out of
> the IIW workshops, is this the truth ?

OpenID was originally a FOAF based protocol, called Yadis by bradfitz
at livejournal.

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/683939.html

Soon after the IIW community became more involved with steering which
lead the the Foundation we have today.

> 3. In section "Problems: Usernames and Passwords are insecure", there is
> mention of the problem that "most names are taken", I don't understand this,
> surely there are more Strings available to be used than there are URIs ?!?
> 4. In the identity standards section, there is mention of OAuth, I am not
> sure OAuth is an identity standard, if anything OpenID connect is trying to
> merge OAuth and OpenID. In my books OAuth is a standard method of providing
> access to private resources on the web, and has very little to do with
> Identity!
> 5. Infocard section. In the 2nd paragraph, there is mention of how InfoCards
> are "relatively secure", I don't understand this statement.
> 6. In the "Profiles" section, "Problem: Can't describe yourself", there is
> mention of a figure, either this section should be deleted or the figure
> should be found. I think the important parts of this section could be
> stripped out and but in the "Accessibility" section of the final report.
> Sorry, this took so long, I wasn't expecting this to take me this long,
> there was quite a lot of editing which needed doing :)
> Mischa
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