On 10 July 2010 17:44, Harry Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great discussion folks! > > > > I think this thread should give the w3 folks we are CCing here a good > idea > > of the passion, quality of work, depth of discussion and breadth of the > > foaf+ssl > > community, which includes hackers from every programming language, > > researchers > > from every continent, security as well as linked data specialists, and > > more. > > > > Perhaps we should leave them a bit of time to digest the details of this > > thread, > > so they can then let us know how we should proceed. > > > > No need to work out the final details of the spec right now :-) Let us > > leave ourselves a bit of work for when we get round to the formal piece. > > > > Digesting as we speak, and again, very nice thinking. Especially agree > with Bruno's point about security - I think crypto should be actually > looked at. Imagine replacing e-mail with social network messages that are > by default encrypted and with verified identify. You'd solve the spam > problem and the security of e-mail problem in one fell swoop :) > > I'm going through the thread, and just to be clear, what I would like is: > > 1) A wiki-page listing AC reps and member organizations, and potential WG > invited experts. > > 2) A short part for the Social Web XG final report that really goes into > the core ideas of attaching certificates to URIs in a way that is easily > understood. > > 3) There really should be a draft spec. Henry's original blog post is > great (and I agree, the idea is so simple that a spec may not seem > needed), but a single HTML page that lays out the ideas in a spec-like > manner would be great. >
How's this for a draft spec, recently put together by Manu? http://payswarm.com/webid/drafts/ED-webid-20100711/ > > Then we can, hopefully in August and Sept, begin talking about next steps > in an e > _______________________________________________ > foaf-protocols mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.foaf-project.org/mailman/listinfo/foaf-protocols >
