[OpenID] Mixi's news (AX, Yahoo!)

[George Fletcher]

Speaking of "people lists"... if the site supported the "portable 
contacts" spec, wouldn't this suffice as an API that would allow for 
checking of membership (both private and public) based on the identity 
of the requester?

I'm looking forward to the day where "friends and family" at flickr 
means, check to see if the person viewing my flickr photos is a member 
of my "friends and family" portable contacts "group":)  ["group" in 
quotes because I'd really prefer it to be... 'check to see if this 
person has a "friend" tag or "family" tag'. ]

Thanks,
George

SitG Admin wrote:
>> It not only offers OpenID to its users, but also offers the 
>> capability to authenticate/authorize based on someones membership in 
>> the friend list or mixi community.
>>     
>
> Excellent news! Integrating users' social identity and leveraging 
> that on an automatically updated basis (daily, weekly, whenever the 
> user tries to authenticate again and their Friend/Community status is 
> rechecked) sets a good example. Might need more communication between 
> OP and hosting provider to duplicate without using an internal 
> (same-site) mechanism, but that's one of the things AX can be used 
> for, or perhaps the site's API if it has one? I hope to see many 
> other sites adopt this - Yahoo!, for instance, though it might not 
> have Friends lists (Flickr?) or Communities, it does have *lists*, 
> and since many of those have private membership, an anonymous way to 
> prove "I am a subscriber to this list." would be *excellent* 
> (speaking from a Relying Party standpoint).
>
> -Shade
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