2012/Identity on the Web Review

 Identity on the Web Review  was a session at IndieWebCamp 2012.

Notes from: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/indiewebcamp-review

When: 2012-06-30 11:15

Where: Teroperate (main room)

Identity and Federation


 * OpenID
 * BrowserID
 * Webfinger / LRDD
 * Ostatus
 * ActivityStreams
 * IndieAuth


 * Identity: OpenID
 * Identity: DNS (simple named identifier, fast, distributed cache, e.g. $ dig andy.tel naptr/loc/txt)
 * Identity: OAuth (Twitter, Facebook, Github)
 * Identity: XRI (i-names)
 * Identity: Webfinger, LRDD

Identity versus authentication:
 * Identity means: I am.
 * Authentication means: prove it.

(U)ser = you use the technology with your personal domain to sign-in to other services

(C)onsume = your personal site accepts (relying party) the technology


 * U C technology
 * 9 1 OpenID
 * 6 1 BrowserID
 * 16 2 RelMeAuth/IndieAuth
 * 4 3 PubSub
 * most 3 Atom
 * most ? hAtom

Portability = can I take my identity to competing providers?

Federation? like email


 * OStatus
 * WebFinger/LRDD
 * Activity Streams / Atom / hAtom
 * PUSH (PubSubHubbub)
 * Salmon
 * Diaspora
 * ActivityStreams [duplicate in notes]
 * RSSCloud


 * RStatus (Ruby implementation of OStatus)