Ok. Here the very strange sounding proposal, but give it a second. What is really needed is a system that gives everything a UUID. People, accounts, messages, pictures etc.
A namespace that connects WHAT I do (post noticesn take pictures) with WHO I am and what OTHERS can do with it. The internet of things as a sort of DNS where the perso or entity that creates it is the root. Whatever you discuss or plan should keep thisin mind IMHO. And yes, it makes anonymity problematic if not impossible, which is a security risk etc. But nevertheless - I am collecting input on such a fully individually owned, decentralized system. Call me crazy, if you want :-) Jan -- Jan H Wildeboer | EMEA Open Source Affairs | Office: +49 (0)89 205071-207 Red Hat GmbH | Mobile: +49 (0)174 33 23 249 Technopark II, Haus C | Fax: +49 (0)89 205071-111 Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 11 -15 | 85630 Grasbrunn | _____________________________________________________________________ Reg. Adresse: Red Hat GmbH, Technopark II, Haus C, Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 11 -15 85630 Grasbrunn, Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 153243 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Brendan Lane, Charlie Peters, Michael Cunningham, Charles Cachera _____________________________________________________________________ GPG Key: 3AC3C8AB Fingerprint: 3D1E C4E0 DD67 E16D E47A 9564 A72F 5C39 3AC3 C8AB ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Mon Sep 07 08:25:48 2009 Subject: [StatusNet-dev] Joined up accounts Here's an idea. If I own these two accounts: http://identi.ca/tobyink http://example.com/tobyink Then I should be able to join them together. To join them together would be like a subscription, but would be bi-directional and require confirmation from both ends. Once joined, notices from <http://example.com/tobyink> would not just appear in the notice stream at <http://identi.ca/tobyink/all> but also in the notice stream at <http://identi.ca/tobyink>. People who subscribed to <http://identi.ca/tobyink> would also see notices from <http://example.com/tobyink>. (And vice versa of course.) This makes moving accounts easy - you just join your new account to your old account, then abandon the old one. Subscribers don't need to unsubscribe from the old account and subscribe to the new one. (Though the person moving accounts will need to re-add to all their old subscriptions to their new account.) Just an idea. What do others think? -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:[email protected]> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk> _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
