Well, it would be enormously useful for us to have a permalink for identites (not just people, people can have numerous faces and may wish to permalink different ones without necessarily linking them - e.g. Iain Banks, Iain M Banks).
I expect that their main use would be for certifying authorship.
The best way to do it would be a way that is user centered, not authority centered.
Something very, very, very like openID.
And getting wikipedia involved is a brilliant idea.
How about extending OpenID so that it could produce certificates that prove a work was created by a particular OpenID, and allow other people to check them?
I dunno; wikipedia isn't the most static of sites. The openids would change hourly.
Also, I'm coming around to the notion that OpenID as currently specified isn't the right tool for this. Is there a website or community working on this problem at the moment?
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... but who could use the OpenID of a dead man?
OpenID is not a synonim for permalink!
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An OpenID is a way to log in, not (automatically) a personal permalink.Well, it would be enormously useful for us to have a permalink for identites (not just people, people can have numerous faces and may wish to permalink different ones without necessarily linking them - e.g. Iain Banks, Iain M Banks).
I expect that their main use would be for certifying authorship.
The best way to do it would be a way that is user centered, not authority centered.
Something very, very, very like openID.
And getting wikipedia involved is a brilliant idea.
How about extending OpenID so that it could produce certificates that prove a work was created by a particular OpenID, and allow other people to check them?
I dunno; wikipedia isn't the most static of sites. The openids would change hourly.
Also, I'm coming around to the notion that OpenID as currently specified isn't the right tool for this. Is there a website or community working on this problem at the moment?