Brian Suda wrote:
So the UID is NOT the vCard itself, but connected to the data that is
contained within it. This is how you can do identity consolidation.
How you know that vCard over there with UID:123 is the same person as
this vCard over here with UID:123 Even if they both have different
information. This is why we have been trying to connect UID and URL,
much like XFN and OpenID your identity is your URL, which is globally
unique.
Hello Brian,
The above does not make any sense (to me), UID in microformats 99% of
the time is hooked on the URL value, URL's are *not* globally unique to
people just unique to the domain, many people share urls with other
people, so Identity consolidation via uid+url wont work. Also there is a
problem when exporting transformed vCards to your address book, If I
have one hcard over there and another hcard over here same name and
url+uid but the rest of the contact information is different, wont my
address book just write over any existing contacts with the same UID 's?.
Identity consolidation may work using OpenID urls but how many people
"in the wild" publish their OpenID url
Thanks
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Martin McEvoy
http://weborganics.co.uk/
"You may find it hard to swallow the notion that anything as large and apparently
inanimate as the Earth is alive."
Dr. James Lovelock, The Ages of Gaia
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