XAuth critiques

Story Henry henry.story at bblfish.net
Tue Jun 8 18:32:10 UTC 2010


On 8 Jun 2010, at 20:23, Allen Tom wrote:

>  think that nearly everyone agrees that many of the UX, privacy, and
> security issues that we have today with internet identity could potentially
> be solved using new identity features baked into browsers.
> 
> However, while we wait for users to have browsers that support these
> features, is there something that we can deploy today? 

Yes, you can use what is already in the browser. Use http://esw.w3.org/Foaf%2Bssl

But, I know you will ignore this, just as the posts I sent here intermittently for the past 2 years. And so you will continue to work in vain solving a problem that does not need solving.

I am just sending this here for future archival reasons, because I don't expect much in terms of response to this.

Henry


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