[Microid] MicroID.org and Microformats.org

Evan Prodromou evan at prodromou.name
Tue Nov 28 11:59:06 EST 2006


On Tue, 2006-28-11 at 11:47 -0500, Fred Stutzman wrote:

> I agree as well.  I think the first step is to get a clearly documented 
> spec that we agree on - if MF community wants to accept that's fine, but it 
> is certainly no dealbreaker if they don't.
> 
> In talks to Yahoo, they wanted a spec.  They didn't ask for the MF 
> community's recognizance.  Maybe it is time to start documenting the spec? 
> This has been on my todo list for way too long.

I think one of the trickiest parts about MicroID is the semantics. If
there is a microid on a page, what does that _mean_?

If I had to summarize it, I'd say that a MicroID was an assertion by the
party in control of that section of the page (either the <head> or a
smaller element) that the agent identified by the first URL has a
relationship with the resource identified by the second URL. That
relationship could be any of:

      * Resource describes Agent
      * Agent is creator of Resource
      * Resource is an identifier for Agent

Anyways, all very interesting.

-Evan

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Evan Prodromou <evan at prodromou.name>


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