link to Tim Berners Lee's Cloud Storage note
authorHenry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:12:59 +0200
changeset 413 0e6cda11f8f2
parent 412 937ef5504f8b
child 414 b3b95bdbac73
child 417 85ac62e20744
link to Tim Berners Lee's Cloud Storage note
spec/index.html
--- a/spec/index.html	Tue Oct 15 14:40:25 2013 +0200
+++ b/spec/index.html	Tue Oct 15 18:12:59 2013 +0200
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
   </p>
   <h1 property="dcterms:title" id="title" class="title p-name">WebID specifications</h1>
 
-  <p>Put together by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/">WebID Incubator Group</a> under the chairmanship of <a href="http://bblfish.net/">Henry Story</a>.</p>
+  <p>Put together by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/">WebID Incubator Group</a> chaired by <a href="http://bblfish.net/">Henry Story</a>.</p>
   
 
 
@@ -51,23 +51,22 @@
 
 
 <section id="abstract"><h2>Abstract</h2>
-<p>A global distributed Social Web requires distributed identity. An identity system that fits the philosophy of the web must have the following properties: 
+<p>A global distributed Social Web requires distributed identity. Following up on an earlier paper by An identity system that fits the philosophy of the web must have the following properties: 
 </p>
 <ul>
  <li>agents should be able to control their identity,
  <li>this identity should be linkable across sites -  placing each agent in a Web of relationships, 
  <li>the web of relationships should build a web of trust that allows each agent to determine for himself what trust anchors he wishes to be guided by,
- <li>it should be possible to describe the agent flexibly,  
+ <li>it should be possible to describe each agent flexibly,  
  <li>it should enable global authentication, 
  <li>it should allow flexbile access control that is both easy for humans and machines to use and understand,
  <li>it should be respectful of privacy,
  <li>the whole lifecycle of an identity, from setting up a profile, to editing it, to possibly deleting it should require nothing more than HTTP, extended by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/wiki/Main_Page">Linked Data Platform</a>.
 </ul>
 <p>
-The following specs have been put together by <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/">WebID Incubator Group</a> with those properties in mind. </p>
+The following specs have been put together by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/">WebID Incubator Group</a> with those properties in mind, and following on Tim Berners Lee's <a href="http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/CloudStorage.html">Socially Aware Cloud Storage</a> note. </p>
 </section>
 
-
 <section id="outline"><h2>Specifications</h2>
 <dl>
   <dt><a href="identity-respec.html">WebID 1.0 - Web Identity and Discovery</a></dt>
@@ -88,7 +87,8 @@
 
 <section id="todo"><h2>Prototype Specs</h2>
 <p>The benefits of WebID become even more evident if the following prototype specifications are taken
-into account. </p>
+into account. These are currently published on a wiki. Please implement them, send feedback, and help us turn them into
+widely implemented well reviewed specifications.</p>
 <dl>
   <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebAccessControl">Web Access Control</a></dt>
   <dd>Every resource on the Web can link to a resource describing in RDF the Access Control Restrictions on that resource: i.e. which agent or groups of agents (listed by WebID ) are allowed Read, Write or Control access on a resource. 
@@ -106,4 +106,5 @@
 
 </section>
 
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