Joseph and I (and several others) have been working closely with Meebo to get this out recently. It's a very simple and basic service that is really quite similar to what Liberty Alliance did before. In fact, this model is widely used in academia and in Europe to simplify federated authentication.<div>
<br></div><div>There are some useful technical distinctions between the XAuth model and the previous models which Joseph could speak to.</div><div><br></div><div>To learn more about this effort, I'd invite you to review these pages:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://xauth.org/info">http://xauth.org/info</a></div><div><a href="http://xauth.org/spec">http://xauth.org/spec</a></div><div><br></div><div>It's currently a work in progress, but largely builds on concepts that Eric Sachs documented a long time ago called the Central or Personal Discovery Service:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/Home/pds/cds">http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/Home/pds/cds</a></div><div><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/Home/pds">http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/Home/pds</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Chris Obdam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.obdam@holder.nl">chris.obdam@holder.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Looks the same as x-has-session but then locally? Maybe i've missed the conversation?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Chris<br>
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