- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 09:55:31 +0000
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- CC: "<public-lod@w3.org>" <public-lod@w3.org>
Thanks Kingsley. I agree with all that, but� On 7 Aug 2013, at 02:07, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> 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 > > > > >
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