--- a/spec/index-respec.html Sun Nov 20 22:09:01 2011 +0100
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-<p>Social networking, identity and privacy have been at the center of how we
-interact with the Web in the last decade. The explosion of social networking
-sites has brought the world closer together as well as created new points of
-pain regarding ease of use and the Web. Remembering login details, passwords,
-and sharing private information across the many websites and social groups
-that we are a part of has become more difficult and complicated than necessary.
-The Social Web is designed to ensure that control of identity and privacy
-settings is always simple and under one's control. WebID is a key enabler of the
-Social Web. This specification outlines a simple universal identification
-mechanism that is distributed, openly extensible, improves privacy, security
-and control over how one can identify themselves and control access to their
-information on the Web.
+<p>A global distributed Social Web requires that each person be able to control their identity, that this identity be linkable across sites - placing each person in a Web of relationships - and that it be possible to authenticate globally with such identities allowing each user to protect resources and enable his preferred privacy settings.
+This specification outlines a simple universal identification mechanism that is distributed, openly extensible, improves privacy, security and control over how each person can identify themselves in order to allow fine grained access control to their information on the Web.
+It does this by applying the best practices of Web Architecture whilst building on well established widely deployed protocols and standards such as RDF and TLS.
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