This seems more like domain OpenID than FOAF.
Richard Wallis talked about this recently on the Talis blog and I
thought summed up the positives, negatives and realities pretty well:
http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2007/01/will_this_one_b.php
-Ross.
On 1/25/07, Stiofan Perkins <scccp_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mike:
>
> FOAF already contains some data encryption abilities and linking, so I am
> wondering if it could be modified to contain one's login and password for
> your database access accounts. I'd rather leverage the current project than
> start another. ;^)
>
> Regards,
>
> SCPerkins
>
>
> Mike Taylor <mike_at_INDEXDATA.COM> wrote:
> Stiofan Perkins writes:
> > What I'd like to see is a FOAF-like system where I can register my
> > database access rights and when I search, Google Scholar, or
> > WorlCat, or XXXXsearch, will be able to query the FOAF-like file to
> > determine if I have immediate access rights to that search result.
> >
> > Anyone want to take that on? Talis? OCLC?, LibraryThing?, ?????
>
> Well, sure!
>
> How much funding do you have?
>
> :-)
>
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Received on Thu Jan 25 2007 - 08:18:09 EST