- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 12:24:06 +0200
- To: Mo McRoberts <Mo.McRoberts@bbc.co.uk>
- Cc: jeff@sayremedia.com, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, public-xg-webid@w3.org
On 24 Apr 2011, at 10:00, Mo McRoberts wrote: > > On 23 Apr 2011, at 23:29, Jeff Sayre wrote: > >> >>>> On 23 Apr 2011, at 19:08, Jeff Sayre wrote: >>>>> Thus, WebID is not just for the Web. >> >>> On 23 Apr 2011, at 1:21 PM, Henry Story wrote: >>>> Agree, but one should pause at the word "just" here. It makes me wonder: >>>> what else do we have that is bigger? It's a bit like saying Bill Gates >> is just >>>> rich.... >> >> Removing 'just' from my sentence would not make any sense. The point is >> that WebID has a practical role beyond the Web (big W). The Internet is >> bigger than the Web platform. Non-webby protocols can harness the power of >> WebID. > > In particular, encouraging e-mail clients not to treat S/MIME signed or encrypted e-mail using certificates from authorities they don't recognise (including, of course, self-signed certs) as “untrusted” rather than “INVALID” wouldn't be a bad thing… I appreciate, of course, that it's a can of worms. > > (But, given that practically every e-mail client on the planet understands S/MIME, there's a big surface-area there for use of WebID beyond web authentication — why *shouldn't* I be able to use my WebID certificate to sign e-mail messages, after all?) Yep that would be a very useful application of WebID. Of course as with many things that will become absolutely obvious (one would hope) as soon as there are a large number of WebIDs out there, that are in everyday use. One could add that here: http://www.w3.org/wiki/Foaf%2Bssl/UseCases or here http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/Use_Cases_and_Requirements or here http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/User_Stories_and_Use_Cases Not exactly sure. Henry > > M. > Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/
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