[OpenID] foaf and openid

[Boris Erdmann]

On 7/20/07, Peter Williams <pwilliams at rapattoni.com> wrote:
[...]
> I just cannot quite follow your terminology yet, Peter being dumb.
> Comment on my rewrite, please:
>
> "The idea is simply to add a foaf link to the html representations of
> the openid resource, so that servers could use that information to
> present more information to the client."
>
> The idea is simply to add a link to the head section of the html
> representation of the openid resource that points to an RDF resource -
> so that an OP consumer supporting a service provider's website could
> present that information to users trying to leverage an OpenID more
> widely, after login has succeeded

Even more simple in the first place, I think: This is just to find an
agreed upon way of FOAF discovery at your (even delegate) OpenID URL.
Until now nobody knew where to find your FOAF data. Your
interpretation of what you quoted is already a follow-up use case.

> If this rewrite is even half accurate, the FOAF-centric RDF locator
> function and the followup SPAQL query on the RDF document by the OP
> Consumer would play a similar added-value to that played by OpenID
> Exchange. Whereas OpenID Exchange helps a OP Provider website control
> whether and which attributes are released to the trust point(s)
> nominated in the OpenID Auth messages, "OpenID FOAF" would help the OP
> Consumer display/control how X resources on the SP site would then be
> shared with other OpenID-identified parties, once the SP session exists
> for the UCI presented.
>
> Have I got the jist? Or, am I heading the wrong way round?
>
> The architecture would seem to elaborating is similar to the actual way
> passport (OP provider) and messenger IM client (OP Consumer) actually
> work today. Once I have logged into the IM network, my profile (RDF)
> controls who on my buddy, profile-nominated friends, or FoaFs, can see
> my status, or initiate one or other additional service with me (webcam,
> P2P voip call, video link , shared gaming session, virtual group sex
> between FoaFs, etc).
>
> Is this where AOL's IM is going, with OpenID?

Good questions :-)