Yep, I tend to agree with Holly. It seems that the process for verifying your identity is identical to the process of creating an identical "forgery."
Also, I've mentioned this before regarding i-tags, using the class attribute to store information seems like a bad idea in general and violates a couple of microformats design principles by using hidden meta-data. See http://tantek.com/log/2005/06.html#d03t2359 for more about the "Principles of visibility and human friendliness." Eran. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Holly Ward > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 4:28 PM > To: Microformats Discuss > Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] MicroID - Identity in a shade of microformat > > I must be missing something obvious, because it seems > apparant to me that this doesn't buy you anything. You take > a person's email and website, and generate a long hex number > based on the two. This identifies them uniquely, sure--but > anybody who knows your email address can generate the exact > same long hex number, and use it on any web page they want. > If you use an email address that nobody knows about, > fine--but then how would anybody verify it was you? > > - Holly > > On 3/27/06, Chris Messina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone seen this? > > > > MicroID is a new Identity layer to the web and Microformats that > > allows anyone to simply claim verifiable ownership over their own > > pages and content hosted anywhere. The technology is > radically simple > > and capable of empowering new and unique meta services with > only minor > > effort. > > > > Via http://www.itgarage.com/node/758 > > > > Looks maybe similar to hcard-supporting ClaimID.com? > > > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > > microformats-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > > > > > -- > Holly Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://annoyinglycheerful.com > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
