[okfn-discuss] Open Service Definition (revisited)

Mon Aug 27 04:50:47 UTC 2007

Luis Villa wrote:
> On 8/23/07, Mike Linksvayer <ml at creativecommons.org> wrote:
>> OpenID and the like are fine, but marginally relevant.  I'm far more
>> interested in being able to tell the world where I want them to access
>> "my" service (eg imagine images.mike.com, powered by flickr) than being
>> able to tell my service provider how to tell who I am.
> 
> OpenID allows you to specify service providers, so, for example, if
> you know that I am http://tieguy.org/, you can query that to see where
> my images are hosted. This allows me to do the kind of thing you're
> talking about.

After useful software that understands HTTP, URLs, and DNS also 
understands a layer of OpenID indirection.

Mike