Re: [higgins-dev] Notes from Higgins Dev Call September 28 at 12pm ET

[Johannes Ernst <jernst+eclipse.org@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, but what's the mapping of identity attributes into RSS? (or  
SSE, same basic issue)

Aren't you just going to end up embedding XML-vCard into RSS or  
something like that?

[BTW, I'm all in favor of reusing things like RSS --- I'm the guy who  
runs the RSS Extensions wiki!]

http://rss-extensions.org/


On Sep 28, 2006, at 11:24, Paul Trevithick wrote:

> Johannes,
>
> It is the application of an existing data synchronization standard  
> called
> SSE (http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/rss/sse/) that in turn is an  
> extension of
> RSS, to profile exchange.
>
> Unlike regular RSS, the SSE extension allows incremental and  
> bidirectional
> data synchronization. The SSE spec is available from Microsoft under a
> Creative Commons license.
>
> In the demo that we did June 19th at the Berkman Identity Mashup,  
> we sent
> the user's kitchen preferences (profile) to mockup of a Best Buy  
> "attribute
> receiving" (AR) site that displayed a 3D mockup of their kitchen  
> (developed
> by MyVirtualModel.com).
>
> [BTW, I just saw that AR acronym on an email by you on the OpenID  
> list. I
> think the converse should be AI (attribute issuer) not (attribute
> provider)--this allows the user to be "in the middle" acting as the
> "provider". My $0.02].
>
> We're about to rename it RSS-H so that the -H suffix will better  
> line up
> with OpenID-H. The -H suffix will then just mean the "Higgins usage or
> "profile" " of the associated otherwise standard protocol. So we'd  
> have
> RSS-H and OpenID-H.
>
> [And I know, I owe you an explanation of what OpenID-H is all  
> about. I'm
> working on it...]
>
> I fully realize that OpenID and XDI are both working on other ways  
> to do
> profile exchange. We thought it would be interesting to try re- 
> using an
> existing standard RSS+SSE instead of inventing a new one. I don't  
> know what
> the market will want. It is/was just an experiment.
>
> -Paul
>
> > On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:45, Paul Trevithick wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > >  * RSS-P - SocialPhysics/Parity
> >
> > What might RSS-P be?
> >
> > Curious ...
> >
> >
> > Johannes.
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