Hi. Olivier Berger <[email protected]> writes:
> Have you heard about WebID [0] (a.k.a FOAF + SSL). > > I think we could make use of WebID to provide a document describing the > Debian contributors profiles, which could be generated by the nm.d.o > (under the control of the member's preferences) and that could be > consumed by any other service that wants to make use of it (no need for > SOAP, just HTTP GET + RDF parsing), and that could also at the same time > include the SSL cert parts that would allow to use it for SSO > (interesting links between such use of SSL and of GPG in Debian, ahead, > too...). > > Besides this, these WebIDs could be the reference URIs for identifying > developers on the Linked Data Cloud, allowing to interface with other > descriptions of Debian resources on the Semantic Web. > Just for reference, a pointer on a discussion about WebID/FOAF (+SSL/TLS) for identification and authentication for Debian is happening on debian-devel, and responds to earlier discussions on debian-project : Message-id: <[email protected]> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg00886.html) Just in case it helps WRT current rewrites of whois/mentors/DPA etc. Best regards, -- Olivier BERGER http://www-public.telecom-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
