[jdev] New project (DIAS)

[Peter Saint-Andre]

David Ammouial wrote:
> On Thursday 15 February 2007 18:02, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> Given the momentum behind OpenID, it would be good to integrate it with
>> that system rather than build something that stands alone.
>> Also, how do 
>> you compare your approach to XEP-0070 and XEP-0101?
> 
> Concerning XEP-0101, I just answered to Richard's email on this matter. The 
> two projects are indeed very similar, except that XEP-0101 is written as 
> being tied to HTTP, whereas DIAS defines the ticket exchange and the HTTP 
> authentication in distinct documents, thus enabling to use the ticket 
> system on other channels than an HTTP communication.
> 
> The main difference with XEP-0070 is that the latter identifies the user 
> _after_ the request, i.e. it is a verification, whereas XEP-0101 and DIAS 
> do it before. Also, XEP-0070 is HTTP-specific.

I think HTTP is the main use case for all this stuff right now and the 
OpenID folks seem to agree, but you're right that we might want to 
authenticate / verify other channels (FTP, SIP, who knows). It would be 
good for XMPP to play well with everything that's happening in this 
distributed identity space. :-)

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
XMPP Standards Foundation
http://www.xmpp.org/xsf/people/stpeter.shtml

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