[uf-discuss] how do i submit something for consideration?

[Mike Schinkel]

Charles,

Funny, I've been planning to write a blog post entitled something like
"What's the one thing wrong with Open-Source? Forking!"  :)

-Mike

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[mailto:microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org] On Behalf Of Charles
Iliya Krempeaux
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] how do i submit something for consideration?

Hello Jonathan,

(This does NOT have anything to do with the Microformats aspect of it,
but....)

Just out of curiousity, why the "No Derivative" part for the license for the
specification?  (To be "open" wouldn't anybody need to be able to make
derivatives, and not just one person or more group of people?)

Here's a good article  on "openness" and "specifications"...

http://goland.org/buyingopenstandards

(I'd probably go further than this article... but it's a good start.)


See ya

On 10/26/06, Jonathan Vanasco <microformats at 2xlp.com> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I've recently soft-launched a distributed identity webapp that I've 
> split out of another project, and released several aspects of that 
> application as open standards ( Creative Commons Attribution-No 
> Derivative Works 2.5 License )
>
> I don't know how / where to submit it for potential consideration as a 
> microformat , or even if they qualify ( one supports human readable , 
> but is geared to be machine readable ; the other is more of an 
> interchange format , but works well as semantic markup ) - so I came 
> here.
>
> The summaries:
>
>         findmeon
>                 design:
>                         essentially a subset of XML-DSIG with some 
> FOAF / XFN semantics tossed in , and coerced to validate in XHTML strict
>                         designed for machine readability , but 
> supports human readability (90% of content would usually be hidden though)
>                         unfortunately must support a non-standard 
> 'compressed' url- encoding to let it clear as validated text on 
> several social networks and forum software ( required because certain 
> tags/attributes were often stripped )
>                 usage:
>                         openly claim / verify / link multiple websites 
> together via RSA
> 1024 public key pairings within a distributed self-sufficient framework
>                         hopefully will end proprietary 'i own this
blog/whatever' codes
>                         designed so that resources do not need to know 
> about one another or a central server in order to be linked/verified by a
public key
>                         originated from: a need to map 
> artist/label/venue/etc information on a music site to official sites / 
> online profiles ; map users of a music site onto other sites for 
> verifiability in trading concert tickets or making online requests /
contest entries
>                 specification status:
>                         the current release works as it should, so any 
> feedback/changes would be merged into a future release
>
>         open_sn
>                 design:
>                         a dirty dirty hack
>                         standardizes the most common social network / 
> dating site / online account profile fields that do not natively 
> appear in existing specifications
>                         its really quite a bad 'standard' -- but it serves
its purpose
>                         primarily designed as an interchange format, 
> but works pretty well in terms of semantic markup
>                 usage:
>                         mostly an interchange format for migrating data
between accounts
>                 specification status:
>                         very much open for immediate improvement / 
> replacement.  its a dirty dirty hack.
>
>         The full text / description of both standards are available at 
> http://findmeon.org
>
>         I'd welcome any feedback.
>
> Thanks,
> // Jonathan Vanasco
>
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-- 
    Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.

    charles @ reptile.ca
    supercanadian @ gmail.com

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