Profile and Contacts data interchange format

[Julian Bond]

Let's say somebody's signing up to a new social site. We've gone through
the authentication and discovery stage and we're now trying to get
Profile Data and Contact Lists across to the new site.

So.
- What data interchange formats should we be using?
- What libraries are available for those formats to interpret the data?
- What should we be recommending to match up incoming entries in the
contact list with existing members?

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[tobym...@gmail.com]

> - What should we be recommending to match up incoming entries in the
> contact list with existing members?

wouldn't users' openID identifier URI be used to identify them and
thus to match them in any contact lists?

[Julian Bond]

"tobym...@gmail.com" <tobym...@gmail.com> Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:59:14

Any attribute that RDF-OWL would call "inverse functional" could be
used. eg
- OpenID
- mbox
- mbox_sha1sum
- Instant Message IDs

Perhaps DP doesn't have to specify one but should recommend one or more
and require that at least one from the list is included.

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