[OpenID] [xri-comment] My Feedback for XRD Vrsion 1.0

[Peter Williams]

Understand that a multi-million dollar project to rollout uci flavored  
websso based on "decentralized" ibrokering only just got stopped in  
time....before funding at least.

The damage to my reputation may take longer to rebuild. I'd found and  
pitched to some ttps the business use case that exploited both vanity  
domains, the ability to easily swap the users choice of sep providers,  
migrate domains, redirect to local pops...

Now using paas endpoints really doesn't change the management model  
that much. However, one has to start all the technology due diligence  
process all over again, to get funding. Now I have to learn to build  
and manage a "private cloud," rather than run xri server farms.

Sent from my iPhon

On Nov 13, 2009, at 2:45 PM, SitG Admin  
<sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com> wrote:

>> I could comprehend what folks pitched as s's main differentiator  
>> over a saml infrastructure: uci and trust network management  
>> offloaded to ibrokers. By the time id fathomed all that and java  
>> and openxri libraries and could finally program and sign an xrd  
>> usable by my yadis consumer from my own trust network connected to  
>> the public name resolvers, uci is (sigh) no longer the central  
>> thrust of the movement. Now it's all been inverted, to be all about  
>> offloading domain endpoints to paas vendors
>
> Peter, think DE-centralization, not USER-centralization: hopefully  
> that will be the next step (when computers are tiny enough that  
> everyone is carrying them on their person, and NOONE else controls  
> your physical hardware), but for now the best we (most of us) can do  
> is prevent any single interest (or conglomeration of 3rd parties)  
> from controlling a significant fraction of our hardware.
>
> -Shade
>