[OpenID] cryptographics web of trust

[Peter Williams]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Story Henry [mailto:henry.story at bblfish.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 4:18 AM
> To: Peter Williams
> Cc: OpenID General
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] cryptographics web of trust
> 
> On 28 Aug 2007, at 22:22, Peter Williams wrote:
> 
> > Don't laugh.  I'm naturally slow. I half got my blog site to work,
> > and got a first RDF FOAF file. I may even have a persistent URI.
> >
> > http://yorkporc.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!5061D4609325B60!148.entry
> >
> 
> Nice! There's nothing like doing to understand!

The blog provider I'm using (MSN Spaces) is very controlling. I cannot
get it to allow link tags of type meta. 

I know you have a nice scheme where the HTTP can act as a layer 6
presentation negotiation protocol - letting the peers negotiate the
serialization format of the RDF model, while on the wire. But, this
would require the consumer to run and operate a webserver, rather than
merely edit some blog site and place a link tag.

It is accepted TODAY that one denote FOAF metadata associated with an
HTML file using these conventions and file extensions? (from a 5 years
old book?)


<link rel="meta" type="application/rdf+xml" href="my-foaf-file.xrdf" />

(Obviously, the HTML reader has to be metadata aware to leverage those
signals, and know that the stream resulting from following the link
should have: application/rdf+xml serialization.

Finally, be proud.

I finally got my federation server (which is JDBC and JDBC/ODBCbridge
capable) to pull attributes from a FOAF file, when doing WebSSO.
http://www.intellidimension.com/ was the mature application server, for
the semweb.

Now I need some code that can answer: if all humans are linked by 6
know-relations, and I have a model of 1,000,000 foaf files, how do I
compute FOAFishly (rather than Euler, for now) the actually relations
that connect X to Y. I assume this has been done, lots of times, by
spidering type solutions.