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A few recent days in the news…. Lots of “open social web” building blocks…. Portable Contacts: The missing piece. Effort underway to standardize: contact schema discovery / auth common operations Focused on ease & speed of adoption Active involvement from large & small players
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Portable Contacts: The missing piece • Effort underway to standardize: • contact schema • discovery / auth • common operations Focused on ease & speed of adoption • Active involvement from large & small players More info & current draft spec:http://portablecontacts.net
Making people data portable: it really works! • User signs in with an OpenID • Site fetches OpenID URL looks for X-XRDS-Location • Site parses XRDS-Simple doc to discover available APIs Site tries to access contacts API gets a 401 • WWW-Authenticate response header specifies OAuth • OAuth Discovery (via XRDS) provides OAuth endpoints Site sends user though OAuth flow to grant access • User returns to site with authorized access token • Site can now access users’ contacts data via API + token