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<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>
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-
<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.
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