Posts with keyword: decentralized

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IIW 2005: Brad Fitzpatrick on OpenID

Wed Oct 26 17:17:00 2005

OpenID is similar to LID in that URLs are used for identifiers. Identity URLs can be static web pages so there's a low barrier to entry. Also, no SSL is required, nor is a browser plugin. OpenID is simply a way to prove you own a URL. OpenID can be stateful or stateless. Stateful access is faster, but requires more infrastructure to support. When you grab a URL, the URL has a way of saying who the identity server is (in the <link/> tag). The identity server provides a way for the person claiming the URL to prove (i.e.
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IIW2005: Johannes Ernst on LID

Wed Oct 26 16:09:00 2005

Johannes starts off with a discussion of REST because that's critical to his design principles for LID. He describes it this way: "everything that matters on the Internet has a URL, can be bookmarked, can be found via Google, can be hyperlinked, can be tagged, and can be accessed with a browser." People got very argumentative here. REST discussions do that. Johannes' conclusion: people need URLs. Similar argument to Drummond and XRIs, but with a different conclusion. Johannes gives a use case based on Doc's Company Relationship Management scenario and me trying to find a hotel in Berkeley. This
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