[foaf-protocols] local password - was WebID pre-alpha specification (uses RDFa)

[Nathan]

Toby Inkster wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:38:11 +0100
> Nathan <nathan at webr3.org> wrote:
> 
>> The other alternative is for somebody else to write it up (even if
>> it's people here), and possibly combine it with (a probably needed)
>> 3rd party email verification service (which could sign the address
>> and provide a lookup to prove it's been validated - why every single
>> site has to repeat this process is beyond me).
> 
> Here was an idea for an e-mail verification service a few months ago:
> 
> http://lists.foaf-project.org/pipermail/foaf-protocols/2010-March/001898.html
> 
> Essentially a single service does the whole
> click-this-link-to-confirm-your-email-address dance, and after that
> publishes a single triple:
> 
> 	<your webid> foaf:mbox_sha1sum "hash123456" .
> 
> In an RDF file at:
> 
> 	http://theirservice.example.com/data/hash123456
> 
> You can then, in your FOAF file include:
> 
> 	<#me> foaf:mbox <mailto:me at example.net> .
> 	<mailto:me at example.net> rdfs:seeAlso
> 	      <http://theirservice.example.com/data/hash123456> .
> 
> Then somebody wanting to use your email address could double check that
> it belonged to you by following the seeAlso link, assuming of course
> that they trusted the theirservice.example.com service provider!
> 

perfect :)