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Authentication Standards

• User authentication - openID
• API authentication - oAuth
  

Data Transfer, Interchange, and Exchange Standards 

These standards enable data dumps via import and export across data spaces on the Web. They also aid publish and subscribe methods of data exchange. The list includes:

• Messaging - XMPP
• Syndication - RSS
• Attention - APML
• Services - YADIS
• Subscriptions - OPML
• Personal details - hCard
• Relationships - XFN
• Personal Profile Data & Social Networks - FOAF
• Online Communities - SIOC  (discussed at SIOC-DEV)

Linked Data or Data Referencing Standards

These standards enable access to data by reference via HTTP based data object identifiers called URIs. The list includes:

• HTTP based URIs (for Location, Value, and Structure independent Object / Resource Identifiers) 
• Personal Profile Data & Social Networks - FOAF
• Online Communities - SIOC  (discussed at SIOC-DEV)
• Other Schemas and Vocabularies in the Semantic Web realm
  

Other standards

Other standards groups and initiatives that may not yet have a place in the Blueprint, but still deserve help and support!

• Content Identity Validation - MicroID