[OpenID] Distributed social networking with OpenID

[Evan Prodromou]

On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 09:46 +0300, tom calthrop wrote:

>  This is an identity page and if I 
> connect to you then I have "linked to you". If you then return to my 
> site and connect you then "link" to me and thus a stronger tie is 
> formed. All of this is decentralized (OpenID to OpenID with xml friends 
> file).

To be honest, it sounds like you're working with what you have rather
than doing the right thing for the problem, Tom.

And it also sounds like it's conflating two different ideas -- that
authenticating to a Web site is equivalent to declaring a relationship
between two people.

I logged into your Web site to leave you a note (the note was that
you're showing delegated URLs rather than entered OpenIDs, which is a
big mistake that needs fixing soon), but I don't know you from Adam.
We're not "connected" in any but the most trivial way.

> Second call - would anyone like to join me in writing an OpenID / OAuth 
> decentralized social networking specification ?

I find it hard to believe that OAuth is applicable to the problem space
(declaring relationships between people across security domains). Can
you sketch out how you think that would work?

-Evan

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