[OpenID] OpenId recycling and trust

[Peter Williams]

I finally followed enough links to http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/. You can see there how some old topics have renewed themselves. There is, however, a certain energy evident - that suggests a fresh look can make some progress.
 
Its all a variant on the old warhorse of the public, decentralized directory of self-managing individual agents. But's thats ok. What matters is that the pieces are coming together, again. Someone has found the pulse again to tame the wild west, and move consumer tech into enterprise tech ...where the recurring revenue is.
 
Brads vision on how onlife life ought to be administered, in a post facebook world is, if anyone cares .. EXACTLY how US realty works in practice. NAR is the trade association / open source group, who administer it all as a benign, rather ridiculed dictatorship that nonetheless does get folks to trust each other. A lot of this web2.0 doctrine should find a good home in realty, as it matures. By its nature, realty is all about people and homes. Selling homes is 100% about people, as projected through the presentation of their home, its lifestyle, and the wealth symbolism that is often attached and sought as people move the aspirations up, in life. Folks rarely want at 30 what they wanted at 20.
 
It's interesting to see what angle OpenID plays in the reasoning. Its not the webSSO or the identifiers. Its the  fact that its a baseline for the trust and reputation services, that will control how you get to move your data across providers. It will be intresting to see if OpenID can leverage some of the ideas of the SPKI folks in IETF, whose ideas (and contemptuous tone) were a decade too early. Perhaps they are appropriate now?
 

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From: general-bounces at openid.net on behalf of Peter Williams
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