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A New Open Stack: Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
The document discusses an effort to standardize a contact schema and API to allow user contact data to be portable across sites and services. It provides examples of how a site can discover and access a user's contacts after getting authorized through OAuth. The effort involves major companies and aims to make it easy and quick for sites to adopt the standard.
A New Open Stack: Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
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- 2. A few recentdays in the news…
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- 4. Lots of “opensocial web” building blocks…
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- 9. Portable Contacts: Themissing 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
- 10. Making people dataportable: 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
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