IIW2006: Tuesday Afternoon Sessions
Doc, Dave Winer, and Don Park(click to enlarge) The afternoon started for me with a session that Dave Winer led on identity in OPML and RSS. There's a need to identify owners and authors in OPML and RSS without creating email addresses that can harvested by spammers. This is a good time to have this discussion because OPML 2.0 is being spec'd. The <head> section in the spec includes a <ownerId> that is defined thusly: [T]he http address of a web page that contains an HTML a form that allows a human reader to communicate with the author of the
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URLs as Identity
Johannes Ernst thinks that's URLs should be used to identify people. That's the basis of his LID identity system. Open ID is based on the same concept. Johannes notes that OPML has joined the party and talks about an emerging consensus on how it should work.
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