Location = Control Control = Ownership – How addressing establishes ownership & what to do about itJ XID Personal Cloud Desktop

Session Topic: Personal Cloud Desktop

Tuesday 5J

Convener: Markus Sabadello

Notes-taker(s): Leif Warner

Tags for the session - technology discussed/ideas considered:

XDI

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

- A personal cloud:

- XDI: A data model and a protocol. A way of storing data and exchanging data.

Can think of a personal cloud as an XDI store.

Have two things running on computer - XDI store, and desktop app that talks to that store through XDI messages.

Every XDI address is a valid URL. XRI2.

XDI messaging format is itself XDI, and thus can be stored as XDI, giving an audit trail of updates.

The personal cloud can have “connectors”, to make data from other services accessible through XDI.

Maps some external data source (e.g. Facebook), to XDI.

Requires a OAuth token, then acts as client of the external service’s API.

Q: How do you resolve schemas?

- Not called a schema, called a dictionary in the data store.

XDI dictionary is itself XDI, and thus machine readable, can be readable from elsewhere - has its own address. Globally addressable - anyone can extend anyone else’s dictionary.

Q: How is an individual i-number generated, or chosen?

A: Similar to domain name system, there’s a registry at the root.

xdi.org

http://xdi2.projectdanube.org/