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<font size=3>Here is the proposal I promised a week or so ago. It
is timely now, after Michael's discussion.<br><br>
We all agree on one design principle: The solution must maximize the
chances of rapid, widespread adoption.<br><br>
And we all agree that, given the other design principles (we may not all
agree on all of those), this means it must be extremely easy for an
individual to set up and maintain their own identity server (whether in
their own bedroom closet, at their ISP, or wherever).<br><br>
Sadly, all four of the alternatives at
<a href="http://yadis.org/wiki/Draft-002" eudora="autourl">
http://yadis.org/wiki/Draft-002</a> flunk.<br><br>
I thought to start from what is simplest and most universal for an
individual who wants to set up and maintain their own identity
server. I came up with: placing text on a web page.<br><br>
The obvious convention is to include magic text on the YADDIS page
(<a href="http://yadis.org/wiki/Terminology" eudora="autourl">
http://yadis.org/wiki/Terminology</a>):<br><br>
<p>I do XRI.</p><br>
<p>I do OpenID.</p><br>
<p>I do mIDm.</p><br>
<p>I do LID.</p><br><br>
...<br><br>
I don't hear the crowd cheering.<br><br>
<br><br>
<br><br>
Then I thought: Wouldn't someone who had a YADIS URL be a proud as can
be? And wouldn't they want to root for the home team?<br><br>
So I thought a user of a YADIS URL would have one or another of the YADIS
logos on their YADIS page.<br>
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Logos like:<br>
the OpenID ID<br>
the LID lozenge<br>
perhaps the OASIS swirly-thingie or the XDI
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or simply the text, mIDm<br><br>
Since we don't want YADIS relying parties scanning for images, we would
expect a URL behind the image:<br><br>
<a href="http://openid.net/" eudora="autourl">http://openid.net/<br>
</a><a href="http://lid.netmesh.org" eudora="autourl">
http://lid.netmesh.org</a> <br>
<a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xri" eudora="autourl">
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xri</a> <br>
or, for examples,
<a href="http://www.xdi.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.xdi.org/</a> ,
<a href="http://public.xdi.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://public.xdi.org/</a> or
<a href="http://public.2idi.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://public.2idi.com/</a> <br><br>
People not up to something as complicated as an image with a link behind
it can simply put the text on their YADIS page.<br><br>
The parsing of the YADIS page will be trivial. Just scan for one or
more of the strings.<br><br>
I post this in the hope it will inspire some additional ideas.
<br><br>
If we can get past this being 2 clunky 2 believe, and still don't like
it, <br>
then the next step is to come up with something better, ...<br><br>
but not too much better: something that satisfies Michael's design
principles.<br><br>
Cordially, Joaquin<br>
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