On 31 Jan 2007, at 15:50, Ara Pehlivanian wrote:
Yes, but what if someone registers ben-ward.net and puts up a fake
card on that site. Then he goes and publishes a partial hCard on
myspace and points to ben-ward.net/about with rel="self me". He's
effectively hijacked your identity and/or caused confusion and there's
no real way to verify who's who or who's telling the truth.
That's still no different to life without rel="me self".
I happen to own the domains <ben-ward.co.uk> and <ben-ward.com>. Note
hyphens. I do not own <benward.com> , <benward.co.uk> nor any other
variant.
Domains do not prove identity. What I can do is make my entire
‘online identy’ parsable by linking between my domains and my social
network profiles using rel="me". That doesn't tell you anything more
about me as a person than the fact that <flickr/photos/benward>, <ben-
ward.co.uk> and <myspace.com/benwardcouk> are part of the same
personal network of sites.
The owner of Ben-Ward.net could have his own personal network of
sites too, but they would not be linked to from my own authoritative
hCard at ben-ward.co.uk/about. Nothing stops him add rel="me" to his
hcard pointing to my site, but that takes us well out of scope of
hcard, and is still a different issue — not something introduced by
@rel="me self"
Ben
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