Re: WebID-ISSUE-4 (bblfish): Detail Authorization "protocol" using WebID

> Does the W3C issue tracker work the same way, or is it based scanning the
> content (vs headers) of the emails for certain tags, only?

Read http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/ ...

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      Michael

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> From: Peter Williams <home_pw@msn.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:46:12 -0800
> To: WebID XG <public-xg-webid@w3.org>
> Subject: RE: WebID-ISSUE-4 (bblfish): Detail Authorization "protocol" using
> WebID
> Resent-From: WebID XG <public-xg-webid@w3.org>
> Resent-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:49:12 +0000
> 
> 
> Some groups get upset when I do what Ive done in this email: respond to X
> topic with something related - but only just. Those groups are often using
> email headers and threads as their issue tracking mechanism. It requires
> certain user behaviour to work, and easy compliance may well assume
> researcher-type tool chains and researcher-grade discipline when handling
> email. 
>  
> Does the W3C issue tracker work the same way, or is it based scanning the
> content (vs headers) of the emails for certain tags, only?
>  
> I remember spending about a year promoting the use of S/MIME in web-based
> email user agents in the days when this notion - which does away with
> SMTP/POP3/IMAP  - was not popular. Least to say, it took a lot of work to
> legitimize what we now take for granted. in that vein, to best get in the
> mindset of W3C, should I perhaps work with W3C project/groupware tools that
> are website based - staying away from mailing list type tools, interactions
> and culture?
>  
>> To: public-xg-webid@w3.org
>> From: sysbot+tracker@w3.org
>> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:17:58 +0000
>> Subject: WebID-ISSUE-4 (bblfish): Detail Authorization "protocol" using WebID
>> 
>> 
>> WebID-ISSUE-4 (bblfish): Detail Authorization "protocol" using WebID
>> 
>> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/track/issues/4
>> 
>> Raised by: Henry Story
>> On product: 
>> 
>> Doing some of what OAuth does using WebID seems to require not much more than
>> adding one relation to a Personal Profile document, and having servers use
>> WebID authentication.
>> 
>> A very initial idea of how this can work was written up in the blog post
>> "Sketch of a RESTful photo Printing service with foaf+ssl"
>> 
>> http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/sketch_of_a_restful_photo
>> 
>> 
>> Some research is being done on this to extend. It would require some
>> implementations.
>> 
>> We need to compare the possibilities enabled by this to what is done with
>> OAuth, the same way we have worked on comparisons with OpenID.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>

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