openid-brainstorming

OpenId + Microformats Brainstorming

This is a public space for capturing some ideas on how OpenId and Microformats can work together.

Relevant Microformats

• hCard - for profiles
• XFN
  • rel="friend" etc. for marking up relationships between profiles
  • rel="me" for identity consolidation among profiles

Ideas for use

• Identity providers could provide hCard marked up profile pages
• re-use hCard (vCard) vocabulary for HTTP query based key-value pairs of information requested and returned

Microformats outside HTML

• JSON representations of hCard etc.

See also

• OpenID on Wikipedia