Thanks Kingsley. I agree with all that, but… On 7 Aug 2013, at 02:07, Kingsley Idehen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/6/13 5:58 PM, Hugh Glaser wrote: >> Actually, this whole thing seems to me (I now realise) nothing to do with >> WedID per se. > > WebID is just a moniker for an HTTP URI that denotes an Agent. It's more > compact that saying "Personal HTTP URI" or "Agent HTTP URI" etc.. > > In addition, a WebID can be used with a variety of authentication protocols. > The thinking behind the WebID+TLS protocol simply boils down to using TLS > which is widely implemented across existing user agents. > >> It is about creating and editing FOAF files. > > Yes! It is basically a showcase for web-like structured data endowed with > machine-comprehensible entity relationship semantics aka. RDF based Linked > Data. I'm not really talking about showcases - I want to be beyond that. I want tools that let me give this stuff to my friends at home, so it gets used! Best Hugh > > You have a local profile graph (persisted to your local keystore) and you > have another published to a publicly acceptable location. Both graphs are > comprised of identity oriented claims. The authentication protocol boils down > to testing the degree to which the claims are mirrored, as the basis for > trust. > > If you open up the certificate used to sign my mails you'll notice a number > of links. One example is <http://id.myopenlink.net/certgen/key/8758> which > denotes the certificate's public key. You can follow-your-nose from there by > clicking that link, as per usual. > > Circa. 2013 we have storage services such as Dropbox, Amazon S3, Google > Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, Box.NET etc.., all of these can host a profile > document that describes claims that mirror those stored in your local > keychain hosted X.509 cert. You simply use the SAN slot to connect these > profile documents via a WebID and the leave the rest to logic expressible in > queries delivered over HTTP e.g., SPARQL ASK :-) > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen > Founder & CEO > OpenLink Software > Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen > Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen > > > > >
