[okfn-discuss] Open Service Definition (revisited)

Mon Aug 27 11:23:25 UTC 2007

On 8/27/07, Mike Linksvayer <ml at creativecommons.org> wrote:
> 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.

You make it sound as if the first three are rare, but sure :)

Luis