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 <section id="abstract"><h2>Abstract</h2>
-<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. By making distributed authentication easy one can allow everybody to protect their resources and enable their preferred privacy settings.</p>
+<p>A global distributed Social Web requires distributed identity. An identity system that fits the philosophy of the web must have the following properties: agents should be able to control their identity, this identity should be linkable across sites -  placing each agent in a Web of relationships, it should be possible to describe the agent flexibly,  and it should enable global authentication, and should allow flexbile access control that is both easy for humans and machines. 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>
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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>
-  <dd>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 including HTML, URIs, HTTP, and RDF Semantics.</dd>
+  <dd>This specification outlines a simple universal identification mechanism that is distributed, openly extensible, enabling each person to control their identity, and to build a decentralised web of trust, which can be used to allow fine grained access control. It does this by applying the best practices of Web Architecture whilst building on well established widely deployed protocols and standards including HTML, URIs, HTTP, and RDF Semantics.</dd>
   <dt><a href="tls-respec.html">WebID-TLS - WebID Authentication over TLS</a></dt>
-  <dd> The WebID-TLS protocol enables secure, efficient and maximally user friendly authentication on the Web using TLS and X.509 Certificates. It enables people to authenticate onto any site by simply choosing one of the certificates proposed to them by their browser. These certificates can be created by any Web Site for their users. This specification extends the WebID Identity specification which defines many of the core concepts used in WebID-TLS. </dd>
+  <dd> The WebID-TLS protocol enables secure, efficient and  user friendly authentication on the Web using TLS and X.509 Certificates. It enables people to authenticate onto any site by simply choosing one of the certificates proposed to them by their browser. These certificates can be created by any Web Site for their users. It is also very effective means for software agents to authenticate. This specification extends the WebID Identity specification which defines many of the core concepts used in WebID-TLS. </dd>
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