I would recommend using WebFinger — it's emerging as the solution to this problem and a lot of the right folks are at the table. I think it would be very wise and strategic to get laconica to support this effort: http://groups.google.com/group/webfinger
There's also an interesting proposal in the works from the author of the OAuth spec: http://groups.google.com/group/webfinger/browse_thread/thread/e18124c3df0b10fe Chris On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Fil <[email protected]> wrote: > There are talks of relaunching the finger service, but over http. The > base would be an email address, since that's what's most used. It > would then answer with info like "homepage", "photo account", and so > on. > > Peek around "webfinger" and discussions > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Jan Wildeboer<[email protected]> > wrote: > > I was just thinking it might make sense to have sth like a DNS for > account > > names. A service that you query with an account name and it gives back a > > list of laconica servers that host this account name. > > > -- Fil > _______________________________________________ > Laconica-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev > -- Chris Messina Open Web Advocate Personal: http://factoryjoe.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrismessina Citizen Agency: http://citizenagency.com Diso Project: http://diso-project.org OpenID Foundation: http://openid.net This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private
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