- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:12:10 +0200
- To: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
- Cc: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, WebID XG <public-xg-webid@w3.org>
On 16 July 2011 23:15, Ben Adida <ben@adida.net> wrote: > So let me suggest something else: why not base WebID on BrowserID? You can > WebFinger the email address, find the profile, and bootstrap anything else > you want on top of that profile. Nicely crystallized, but as you'll no doubt guess, I disagree :) An extra round trip to an extra service no less, all for the sake of a dozen or two chars. > Since it's clear that everyone has an email address, but not everyone has a > public profile, that direction makes more sense, I think. Ok, I'll accept your arguments for why BrowserID MUST include a person's email address (and am starting to think it may be good as a SHOULD for WebID), but given that a significant proportion of Web users do have profiles (and that proportion will undoubtedly increase), I see no reason to exclude the possibility that it also MAY include a URI - direct to user's URI, their profile, homepage (which allows autodiscovery) or OpenID - all of which offer ways of discovering more information. One small step offers compatibility with loads of other systems, what's not to like? Cheers, Danny. -- http://danny.ayers.name
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