[Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 4 July 2011 07:25, John Walsh <fiftyfour at waldevin.com> wrote:
>  Hi Melvin,
>
>> From: Melvin Carvalho [mailto:melvincarvalho at gmail.com]
>> > Basically at myopenid.com you can create different "Personas"
>> > (profiles of information), which you choose at the time you
>> login with
>> > openid. For me you could have a friend persona, a sibling
>> persona etc.
>> > I believe the technical term is attribute exchange. If freedombox
>> > friend process had a similar UI then there would be no
>> distinguishable difference between the user.
>>
>> Myopenid is a good model, and great interface, but openid has
>> shifted to more corporate, rather than it's original user
>> centric roots.
>> Hosting your own profile is barely supported by OpenID these
>> days, but we can do that same thing with WebID which is user centric.
> I didn't know that hosting your own profile was barely supported now. That's
> a pity and would probably rule out OpenID as an option for FreedomBox.

There are some people in the OpenID ecosystem that still like the self
hosting pattern, so you never know things may change.  However, it's
not really seen as a priority by the board.

>>
>> You dont need AX (attribute exchane), just use the HTML5 data
>> layer, which should be fine if freedom box is hosting a web server.
>
> I looked at WebID a year ago and thought the idea was simple and brillant.
> However, at the time, I thought WebID had an ugly interface (due to
> Firefox), there was no Persona's (AX) option, it wasn't clear to me what
> happens when a certificate expires and it wasn't widely used. What has
> changed?

Hopefully this video gives an overview of where things are.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnoRQZCL9I4  (from http://webid,info )

The WebID incubator group is working with browser vendors to fix bugs.

Here's one it would be helpful to vote up:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396441

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