Posts with keyword: yadis

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InfoCard and MediaWiki

Wed Apr 12 14:59:00 2006

A few days ago, I mentioned that we'd put up a version of MediaWiki that supports OpenID for the Internet Identity Workshop. I know that Johannes Ernst and others trying to get it all working with Yadis generally. A month or so ago, Kim Cameron InfoCard-enabled his Wordpress blog. I'd love to see this all working together. Is there any MediaWiki code that does InfoCard yet? If so, can these things co-exist?
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Capability Discovery for Identity Protocols

Mon Dec 5 12:50:00 2005

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.
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