RE: [higgins-dev] Notes from Higgins Dev Call September 28 at 12pm ET

["Paul Trevithick" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Johannes,

It is the application of an existing data synchronization standard called
SSE (http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/rss/sse/) that in turn is an extension of
RSS, to profile exchange. 

Unlike regular RSS, the SSE extension allows incremental and bidirectional
data synchronization. The SSE spec is available from Microsoft under a
Creative Commons license.

In the demo that we did June 19th at the Berkman Identity Mashup, we sent
the user's kitchen preferences (profile) to mockup of a Best Buy "attribute
receiving" (AR) site that displayed a 3D mockup of their kitchen (developed
by MyVirtualModel.com). 

[BTW, I just saw that AR acronym on an email by you on the OpenID list. I
think the converse should be AI (attribute issuer) not (attribute
provider)--this allows the user to be "in the middle" acting as the
"provider". My $0.02].

We're about to rename it RSS-H so that the -H suffix will better line up
with OpenID-H. The -H suffix will then just mean the "Higgins usage or
"profile" " of the associated otherwise standard protocol. So we'd have
RSS-H and OpenID-H.

[And I know, I owe you an explanation of what OpenID-H is all about. I'm
working on it...]

I fully realize that OpenID and XDI are both working on other ways to do
profile exchange. We thought it would be interesting to try re-using an
existing standard RSS+SSE instead of inventing a new one. I don't know what
the market will want. It is/was just an experiment.

-Paul

> 
> On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:45, Paul Trevithick wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >  * RSS-P - SocialPhysics/Parity
> 
> What might RSS-P be?
> 
> Curious ...
> 
> 
> Johannes.
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