Marc Canter
I - Nobody wakes up in the morning and says "I need to solve my digital
ID requirements today"
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Digital ID technology needs to be transparent
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built into commercial software - all kinds
II - FOAF as it stands today
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is confusing - it isn't clear what it is
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no commercial uptake - what little there has been, as not
been "standard" (TypePad)
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research oriented - focused on semweb issues, not simple
interchange
III - What is FOAFnet?
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a consortium of commercial software vendors
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who wish to use machine generated FOAF for digital ID
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fancy "About Me" pages
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interchange format for social networks
IV - FOAFnet's strategy
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define a sub-set FOAF spec - that is FROZEN
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define base level user interface guidelines - usage scenarios
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facilitate the interchange of profiles between systems that
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include social networks (list of relationships)
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clear roadmap leading to full semweb functionality
V - FOAFnet Roadmap
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more vocabulary, more constructs
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merge files
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hot-linking, updating, mirroring