Re: [Social-discuss] Onesocialweb source code and federation

[Rob Myers]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:11:34 +0100, Story Henry <address@hidden>
wrote:
> On 14 Apr 2010, at 21:17, Laurent Eschenauer wrote:
> 
>> But in the end... how do I authenticate (in an entity authentication
>> sense) to the
>> PuSH node ? That is a big piece missing at this stage in the HTTP
world,
>> and
>> where XMPP really helps.
> 
> Have you looked at foaf+ssl? What is it that is missing? It uses HTTP,
> it's decentralised
> (and could even be used to secure XMPP)
> 
>    http://esw.w3.org/Foaf%2Bssl/FAQ

Certainly https + FOAF is a "lowest common denominator" solution, which
would fit a keep-it-simple approach. I don't mean any disrespect to either
technology by saying this, I just mean that they are widespread and
relatively well understood by a large audience.

- Rob.