Posts with keyword: xdi

7 entries

Standards, Monopolies, and the Quantified Self

Mon Aug 5 18:33:00 2013

As APIs proliferate, the opportunities for reuse don't multiply nearly as fast because their semantics don't neatly align. Standards could solve this problem, but they're too hard to be practical. We need another way. XDI is aiming to solve this problem in the long term. Rules are a practical answer to this problem today.
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Personal Data and CloudOS

Sat Jun 29 18:52:00 2013

People sometimes ask me about where and how personal data is stored in CloudOS. The "personal data service" or PDS is the foundational element in CloudOS that handles personal data. But it's not a data store so much as a consistent API to where ever the owner of the cloud wants to keep their data.
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PDS Interoperability

Wed May 2 09:57:00 2012

For personal data services to really take off, they have to interoperate. Here are some use cases that illustrate what PDS interoperability means.
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Data Abstractions for Richer Cloud Experiences

Fri Apr 6 20:20:00 2012

A Cloud OS (COS) for a personal cloud will need a data abstraction layer analogous to the kinds of data abstraction that a traditional OS provides. Unlike a traditional filesysystem, however, the COS data layer must deal with a multitude of distributed APIs.
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KRL, Data, and Personal Clouds

Thu Mar 22 10:21:00 2012

Personal clouds need access to data. Lots of data. Data from all over. I envision my personal cloud as a general purpose computing platform that is always working for me. As such, it will need access to all sorts of data about me, my schedule, my to do list, and so on. Of course, it's not really the cloud that needs access to the data, but the programs running in it.
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Referencing and Encoding Metadata

Fri Sep 10 09:03:00 2010

We need data permissions to be as portable as the data itself. So too for all metadata. Over the course of IIW East, I had a revelation (for me) that there's real power in having metadata encoded in the same format as the data itself and, in a related way, allowing self-refernce so that the meta data can be referenced from the document it describes. I think I've always believed that, but hadn't really articulated it to myself until yesterday. Certainly, this idea isn't new. Just look at XML for the largest, recent example. Nearly everything about and XML
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XRI, XDI, and Identity

Mon Dec 5 16:56:00 2005

I flew down to Oakland today to attend Andy Dale's XDI Workshop (slides and video available, eventually, on the wiki). XRI's one of those things I've wanted to understand better and I decided that going to a workshop with Andy was the best way to do that. Call me lazy. Andy subtitled his presentation "an implementor's guide" and started off with an off-the-cuff comment that XDI is mostly at a stage where it can be implemented. Globally Unique identifiers You can't talk about distributed management without talking about global unique identifiers (GUIs). These are things like phone numbers. Local
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