The YADIS Project Building Yet Another Decentralized Identity Interoperability System

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Overview

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• For background, goals, architecture, protocol, and contact information please see the specification below.
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Specification

This is the outline of the draft spec, please use the "talk" page (tab "discussion") on the respective page to comment or address your questions and concerns. Alternatively, you can download the current spec in PDF.

1. Background
2. Goals
3. Architectural Assumptions
   1. Fully decentralized, and no one point of control
   2. Let many (interoperable) flowers bloom
   3. URLs as identifiers
   4. REST-ful and easy to use for developers
4. User Scenarios
   1. Scenario: Authentication at website
5. YADIS Protocol
   1. Capability Discovery Protocol
   2. Authentication
   3. Profile data exchange
6. Formats
   1. application/x-meta-identity
7. Impact on LID and OpenID
8. Examples
   1. Log on at an OpenID site (non-delegated case)
   2. Log on at a LID site (non-delegated case)
9. Terminology
   1. Developer terminology
   2. End-user terminology
10. For more information