XAuth critiques

[Dick Hardt]

On 2010-06-08, at 11:32 AM, Story Henry wrote:

> 
> 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.

Gee ... now I really want to go read your other posts! Don't oversell your ideas!

-- Dick