[foaf-protocols] rdfa foaf+ssl idea

[Melvin Carvalho]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Story Henry <henry.story at bblfish.net> wrote:
> melvster on #swig came up with a good idea on how to help people turn
> their home pages into their identity using foaf+ssl.

Really good example of using RDFa here:

http://tobyinkster.co.uk/

So does this now mean that http://tobyinkster.co.uk/ is a webid now as
well as an openid?

>
> So the tricky piece is that the service has to create both some rdfa
> for a home page/blog/etc, and create a certificate to add to the
> browser.
>
> As a result such a service should
>
> 1 ask the user to add a foaf:Person identifier to the web page.
>
> 2. point the service to the web page
>
> 3. the service would then go and fetch the page, find the foaf:Persons
> in them, ask the user which one he is
>
> 4. having that information the service could use SPKAC to create the
> cert and give them a snippet containing the private key.
>
> 5. It might then offer a testing service to show that it worked out
> correctly, ie ask the user to log in somewhere.

I'm working on building such a service.

>
> Henry
>
>
> Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish
>
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