Daniel Feygin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:49:04 >1) so we need to distinguish between validated and unvalidated email >address claims; >2) a simple solution would be to use a boolean XML attribute to denote >validation status (whether container asserts that the user's claim is >valid); >3) don't know if I would trust the container's validation claim -- I >don't know when it was validated and how (i.e. whether it could be >spoofed). > >My point is that these attributes make poor candidates as reliable >user IDs. They are great for figuring out how to communicate or tune >in to the user, where there is motivation for the user to be accurate.
It depends on what you are trying to do. The whole reason for raising the issue is about aggregating social graphs across Social Networks and Containers. If somebody says they have email E1 on 2 different SNs, you can be reasonably sure they are the same person. If they also say they have the same Skype address S1, you can be a bit more sure. But as you say it's not necessarily proven. We've seen Aggregators (Opinity) that demanded validation on each claim. We've also seen others that just aggregated the claims without trying to prove them. It also depends on what you want to do with it. You would not want to base a security system on some of this arbitrary data collected from arbitrary exports found on the web. But you might want to use data found in some white pages system to track down an individual and communicate with them. So the real point of raising this here was to make sure that the People Data API could cope with all these situations and had reasonable ways of encoding the data. Rather than argue about what the data means. And to do it in a way that will work across Container sites each of which has similar but different profile records. -- Julian Bond E&MSN: julian_bond at voidstar.com M: +44 (0)77 5907 2173 Webmaster: http://www.ecademy.com/ T: +44 (0)192 0412 433 Personal WebLog: http://www.voidstar.com/ skype:julian.bond?chat Not A Toy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Implementing OpenSocial Containers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-container?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
