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Yadis Specification

The current version of the Yadis specification is 1.0, released March 2006.

Older documents are available at Yadis Documents.

Yadis Overview

What is Yadis
Yadis Implementations
Yadis FAQ (please add your questions and answers)
Hosting your own Yadis URL.

Current Work

Change Proposals -- proposed changes to the Yadis specification
Change Proposal HowTo -- how to make a proposal to change the specification
Open Issues -- general issues for which there is not a specific change proposal.
Yadis Implementor's Guide
Work Plan

Events

Coming Soon

Internet Identity Workshop 2025b, December 3-5 in Mountain View, CA, at the Computer History Museum

Past Events

Internet Identity Workshop 2007, May 14-16 in Mountain View, CA. at the Computer History Museum.
4-6 Dec, 2006: Internet Identity Workshop 2024b in Mountain View, CA
19-21 June, 2006: Identity Mashup conference at the Berkman Center at Harvard University, MA.
11-13 September, 2006: Digital ID World Conference in Santa Clara, California.
1-3 May, 2006: Internet Identity Workshop 2006 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
Yadis 1.0 specification published.
Tuesday 21 March: Johannes Ernst (NetMesh) talked about Yadis and URL-based identity at the Microsoft Mix '06 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Yadis implementations are being announced.
Michael Graves (CTO, Verisign) and Johannes Ernst (CEO, NetMesh) talked about Yadis and URL-based identity at Esther Dyson's PC Forum in a session titled "The Accountable net: Trust, Reputation & Identity" (Agenda). Identity Woman was at PC Forum, too.
Yadis specification Version 0.92, based on feedback from implementers, was released 27 February.
Yadis and internet identity were briefly discussed at the Reputation non-group meeting in San Francisco Monday 27 February.
Yadis and Yadis identity services were the topic of a Mashup Camp session at the Computer History Museum Monday 20 February.
Yadis specification Version 0.9 was released 30 January. Implementors provided feedback during a one month period of review by implementation.
On Tuesday 24 January at the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference Identity Woman speed-geeked a roomful of attendees at the User-controlled Identity workshop around demonstrations of five different implementations of LID and OpenID. See the report on the Identity Workshop Wiki at Identity Speed Geeking.
Johannes Ernst talked about Yadis at the Emerging Telephony conference (Identity Crisis: Namespaces Out of Control).
The Internet Interoperability Developer Workshop, the second in the series of Internet Identity Workshops, was held in San Francisco Monday 12 December. Agenda here. Attendees here.
The December meeting in San Francisco to gain consensus on details of the Yadis Protocol was a success. See the meeting notes.

More Information

Use Cases: Examples of how to use Yadis to accomplish various tasks.
Yadis People -- if you like it, add your name here.
Yadis Implementations -- if you have one, add a link here.
Yadis Service Types -- if you have implemented a Yadis service, specify the service type identifier here.
Yadis Logo
Yadis Mailing list -- for technical discussions.
For background, goals, architecture, protocol, and contact information please see the Current Draft Specification.
Special comment on logging in at yadis.org.
Also see #identity IRC channel on freenode.
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