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Capability Discovery for Identity Protocols
While is possible that a single identity system will emerge for the Internet, it’s not likely. Hence the claim by Microsoft’s InfoCard to be a “meatasystem” for identity. That is, an infrastructure that other identities can ride on. Alternately, others are building such a metasystem from the bottom up.
Right now, that effort goes by the unfortunate moniker of YADIS. YADIS is a way of discovering the capabilites of various identity systems. Drummond Reed just announced that YADIS will also include i-names in addition to OpenID and LID.
Posted by windley on December 5, 2005 12:50 PM
Comment from Bryant Cutler at December 5, 2005 3:17 PM
I think that open-source software really needs to get away from the "YA-" prefix. Even if it IS "Yet Another" foo editor, give it a name anyway. "OpenID" is ok, i-names is sort of "been there, done that" (at least it isn't "iNames"). Maybe LID could be LightID instead? Just my $0.25
Comment from Bryant Cutler at December 5, 2005 3:20 PM
Also, the LID link should probably point to http://lid.netmesh.org/wiki/Main_Page