On 10/29/06, Scott Reynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 29, 2006, at 8:48 PM, Chris Messina wrote:
> On 10/29/06, Bruce D'Arcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 10/29/06, Chris Messina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > Put it this way: there's a convergence coming between OpenID,
>> > microformats (especially XFN and hcard) and being able to specify
>> > assertions about a given hcard without having all information,
>> in my
>> > thinking, is valuable.
>>
>> Also been some discussion on Planet RDF about using OpenID URLs as
>> identifier for FOAF and such (they are just URIs, after all), which I
>> also think a good idea.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> > Thoughts?
>>
>> In the absence of an OpenID, borrow another approach from the FOAF
>> world: use a hash of an email address?
>
> Like MicroID does?
>
> Again, this stuff has to work in the absense of either, since in
> Address Book (on the mac at least) nothing is required; in hcard, only
> "n" or "fn" is required.
It seems there's a lot of thought around this already in the wiki:
http://microformats.org/wiki/uid-brainstorming
Or is there something different about this recent thread that I'm
missing?
Peace,
Scott
Oh! Hadn't seen that!
But this is something *in the wild* and should be paid some attention to.
Chris
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