Hello, I am new to the list, but have been following OpenID from a short distance for a while. Unfortunately I just found out about the Attribute Exchange proposal, I say unfortunately because I have been working on something similar, albeit very very slowly, for a couple of years. I was going to submit a spec to OpenID when I discovered the existing Attribute Exchange spec.
My project was "side tracked" due to a Military deployment. The location of my project is http://xri.net/=Pierce/code.knownGood . Most of the work I have done at this point is in talking to people and learning what their problems are. From this I have been working on an approach to solving all of their common problems. There are two main areas that I have not seen discussed in the archives or documents, at least not to the extent of addressing some of the issues people have raised with me. 1. Updating information. When I update an attribute is there any proposed way to notify subscribers without the subscribers having to poll my URI? 2. Is there any way for an entity to create a collection of attributes for individuals to associate values with? I saw a reference to "Personas" in one of the documents but these seemed to be user-derived. The system I have been looking at is very similar, but seems to start from a different perspective. My starting point was about making an organization more efficient and easing the burden of updating my information with multiple organizations at once. To accomplish this I was looking at ways to allow an organization to create "Profiles" of Attributes. In the talks I have had with people they seemed to want profiles that match their existing HR documents or data they would like to collect but have no documents or processes for. Individuals would then associate Attributes with the fields for a Profile, when the local Attribute was updated any Profile containing that Attribute would be updated. This would trigger an update to the authorized organizations. Other things I have looked at are ways to secure the data, potentially using GnuPG and building a client application for managing the Attributes and Profiles. I am still reading some of the specs and mailing list archive, but I will help out where I can. Wayne -- Phone: 414.208.0808 Blog: http://xri.net/=Pierce/(+blog) Learn something from everybody. Some people will teach you what to do, while others will teach you what not to do. _______________________________________________ specs mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs
