[OpenID] OpenID Identity Consolidation

[Chris Messina]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Nate Klingenstein <ndk at internet2.edu> wrote:
>
> This is where Portable Contacts comes in, since we already accommodate
> sending other known identifiers for a person.
>
> Just looking at the draft spec for the first time now, it's looks like a
> pretty large and structured data set.  I see no reason the same information
> couldn't be conveyed using AX as a sort of transport layer, at first
> glance.
>
> Is there a strong reason not to see all this data as attributes?  That
> would be better for implementers and reduce confusion by deployers,
> increasing the chance they could implement privacy controls, for example.

PoCo was developed separately to replace all the proprietary and
non-interoperable contact/address book APIs [1]. It was based on vcard
in order to be backwards compatible while modernizing some of the
schema's naming conventions.

It is designed to be useful with or without OpenID. I believe that
there's already work underway to use the PoCo shema over AX, which is
a step in the direction you're proposing, I think.


> And one more bit of consolidation: is there a place where I can track all
> the specs this community is generating?

Heh. Well, this is kind of what diso-project.org was supposed to be
for, but I haven't really had time to maintain the site. There's of
course the opensocial.org site and if you want a newsy approach, we've
got thesocialweb.tv doing weekly shows. ;)

Admittedly the "pieces loosely joined" approach can be hard to follow
when every piece ends up with its own infrastructure!


> I think TX is going in the right general direction, and I applaud the
> brainstorming that went into it.

I've not heard of TX. Can you give me some pointers?

Thanks!

Chris

[1] http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/06/04/inventing-contact-schemas-for-fun-and-profit-ugh/

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