On Nov 29, 2007 10:59 AM, Julian Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...But you might want to use data found in some white > pages system to track down an individual and communicate with them.
Quite true, these profile attributes provide means of communicating with profile owners. However they should not be used to infer identity relationships between multiple profiles, as they may be owned by different individuals despite the efforts of one of them to create the impression that they are not. For example, I can publish your name, email address or Skype ID in my profile, which would also have an email address I control as the primary one. Whoever infers that my profile must also belong to you can be trapped into emailing me when they think they are talking to you. My only point here is that we need to distinguish between user ID, which the container provides with its own guarantees of uniqueness, and identity attributes published by users themselves. The latter really should not be used for identity purposes. Unless both identities explicitly declare a shared relationship, it is not to be assumed (as you seem to imply based on attribute value match). > 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. Completely agree that we need a standard vocabulary and syntax for a lot of these identity attributes/claims. A bunch of those already exist, btw, so it would potentially benefit OpenSocial to reuse the already defined vocabularies and syntax (e.g., SAML, OpenID). -Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
