<div dir="ltr">I thought UI = user interface while UX = user experience. Slightly different.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Nate Klingenstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ndk@internet2.edu">ndk@internet2.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Peter,<div><br></div><div><div><div class="Ih2E3d"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)">I have to admit to some (more) ignorance: I don't know what an UX issue is.</span></p></span></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>User interface. No shame here -- I had to look it up myself. :P</div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 221);font-size:12px">In the shib vision of the world, a long list of entities metadata is compiled and signed as a file at URL at well-known "natural" prividers, rather similarly to themodel used for the the original internet host files, pre DNS....</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:rgb(31, 73, 125)">What OpenID does seem to have done is use the web in the same role that DNS provided to the host file problem – liberate membership from centralized policy management.</span></p>
</div></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div>Having had static metadata for a long time, we've wanted to move towards decentralized metadata for a long time. When we really began to try it, however, we discovered that federations have been providing us a lot more than we thought they were: advertisement for services, a discovery mechanism for users, trust broker and legal framework, a discovery mechanism for providers, etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If federations were only for naming, we would have disposed of them long ago. There's much more than that to replace.</div><div><br></div><div>Our use cases require dynamic discovery that can bootstrap trust, legal, and advertisement frameworks. This is why I've been pushing for provider tagging alongside pure reputation services.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Take care,</div><div>Nate.</div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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