From: David N. Welton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:49 PM
Ceki G|lc| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
What do URLs have to do with Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles? Does not compute.
Really... who wants to parse up some file, and have a spider visit a bunch of sites just to get the same information that could have been put in a file on cvs.apache.org or directly in the committers repository.
+1. As someone who doesn't maintain a personal site and doesn't want to just to put ICBM info there, I'd prefer to just put my info in a file directly.
Fair.
Good news, you don't need to have a personal site, all you need is a place to put a page you control. Happy day there is your ~/public_html/foobar.html on cvs.apache.org, e.g. http://cvs.apache.org/~bhyde/
Then I'll admit I had assorted hidden agendas.
I'm very interested the theory and practice of an identity system that avoids having _any_ hub what so ever. I'm sad to have the url.txt file at all. I'd rather have done some of those cool new uri/dns tricks.
I'm curious if it's actually viable for identity info to be maintained closer to the entity identified rather than the identity provider.
I believe that such info should be volunteered rather than ascribed.
I'm very interested in the problem of how you aggregate knowledge about entities in any identity system with out prejudging what that info might be. So I tried to pick the least-est info to accumulate it first and I wanted it distributed immediately so that it would force the enterprise to never assume it had control very much over the actual data.
I think for a hack like this to scale well and grow fast you need to have it spitting fun value out at every step along the way.
It's more fun for me to scrap than design XML schemas.
I think it's healthy if the schema designers are trying to catch up with the genie after it gets out of the bottle.
I wanted to have some fun in this list, but fast.
- ben
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