Hi all, Sorry for the silence, we're swamped here right now.
Dnia piątek, 18 maja 2012 o 14:34:51 wayne, steve napisał(a): > I agree that we should try something that already exists. This is > something I found while perusing Diaspora's federation protocol: > > http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/wiki/WebFingerProtocol > > This protocol is intended to allow one to find the public services > that another person uses by using their email address as a key. I > think earlier in this thread someone mentioned using our > hypothetical directory protocol to find email addresses...using > what? Their names? I can foresee problems with not knowing how to > spell a person's name, uniqueness (which Mike/Mikael/Michael > Anderson's email should a service implementing this protocol give > out?), etc. This is already solved many times in may software packages, e.g. via Soundex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex > On the other hand, if you know a person well enough then you may > know one of their email addresses which is already a unique > identifier. I propose that we use this as our primary lookup key. I would say we use an address that looks like an e-mail address. Look at XMPP or Diaspora - JIDs and Diaspora IDs look just like e-mail addresses. I believe it has many advantages: - it looks familiar; - it allows a person to have different identities; - it provides for having a user @ server schemes; - it is possible to have the same ID on many different services (email, XMPP, Diaspora, other); - it caters for anonymity if somebody wants it (they don't have to use their e-mail address, can create a completely new ID without creating an e-mail address). > The advantage of using Webfinger to create a federated directory > lookup service is that it is already used by Diaspora, and it is > already in draft form... Great, I'm all for it! > we would just be doing the groundwork of > understanding what open network services are available (diaspora, > jabber, ...?) and figuring out how to connect with servers > implementing those services, then writing a small reference > implementation of our federated directory lookup service. > > Does that make sense? It does, a lot! :) -- Pozdrawiam Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Fundacja Wolnego i Otwartego Oprogramowania
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