[uf-discuss] MicroID - Identity in a shade of microformat

[Eran]

Yep, I tend to agree with Holly. It seems that the process for verifying
your identity is identical to the process of creating an identical
"forgery."

Also, I've mentioned this before regarding i-tags, using the class attribute
to store information seems like a bad idea in general and violates a couple
of microformats design principles by using hidden meta-data. See
http://tantek.com/log/2005/06.html#d03t2359 for more about the "Principles
of visibility and human friendliness."

Eran.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org 
> [mailto:microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org] On 
> Behalf Of Holly Ward
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 4:28 PM
> To: Microformats Discuss
> Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] MicroID - Identity in a shade of microformat
> 
> I must be missing something obvious, because it seems 
> apparant to me that this doesn't buy you anything.  You take 
> a person's email and website, and generate a long hex number 
> based on the two.  This identifies them uniquely, sure--but 
> anybody who knows your email address can generate the exact 
> same long hex number, and use it on any web page they want.  
> If you use an email address that nobody knows about, 
> fine--but then how would anybody verify it was you?
> 
>  - Holly
> 
> On 3/27/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyone seen this?
> >
> > MicroID is a new Identity layer to the web and Microformats that 
> > allows anyone to simply claim verifiable ownership over their own 
> > pages and content hosted anywhere. The technology is 
> radically simple 
> > and capable of empowering new and unique meta services with 
> only minor 
> > effort.
> >
> > Via http://www.itgarage.com/node/758
> >
> > Looks maybe similar to hcard-supporting ClaimID.com?
> >
> > Chris
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> 
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> Holly Ward <holly at wards.net>
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