Re: [foaf-protocols] replacing email with atom and foaf+ssl

2010-05-03 Thread Nathan
Story Henry wrote: In the early days of Atom, people were speaking of using it to replace e-mail. This is in fact easy to do, we just need to try it out. 1. The problem. --- Before explaining the solution, it is important to understand the problem. Currently Atom works

Re: [foaf-protocols] replacing email with atom and foaf+ssl

2010-05-03 Thread Story Henry
On 3 May 2010, at 21:22, Nathan wrote: Story Henry wrote: [snip 2. The Solution --- 2.1 RESTful Identity and Authentication --- foaf+ssl gives us WebIds, global identifiers tied to a public key, which allows one click authentication.

Re: [foaf-protocols] replacing email with atom and foaf+ssl

2010-05-03 Thread Nathan
Story Henry wrote: On 3 May 2010, at 21:22, Nathan wrote: Story Henry wrote: [snip 2. The Solution --- 2.1 RESTful Identity and Authentication --- foaf+ssl gives us WebIds, global identifiers tied to a public key, which allows one

Re: [foaf-protocols] replacing email with atom and foaf+ssl

2010-05-03 Thread Story Henry
On 3 May 2010, at 22:02, Nathan wrote: All in all: Sounds feasible and pretty much fully spec'd if going down the atompub route, perhaps linked data + sparql/sparul/pubsubhubbub is the long term route but I'm quite sure it would take a bit more work to both implement and encourage