“The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on user-centric identity and trying to solve the technical challenge of how people can manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations that they belong to, purchase from and participate with.”
#standards
Best Practice for Site Developers
Best Practice for Site Developers
“This page holds ideas for people who maintain or build websites on things they can do now to support Data Portability.”
WordPress CodeSniffer Standard
WordPress CodeSniffer Standard
Checks your PHP code to see how well it conforms to the published WordPress Coding Standard.
Drupal Visual Language Guide
This is a really well-prepared and professional style guide. It’s a great example of covering all of the visual elements of a complete online identity.
Portable Contacts
“The goal of Portable Contacts is to make it easier for developers to give their users a secure way to access the address books and friends lists they have built up all over the web.”
Putting XRDS-Simple in Context
Putting XRDS-Simple in Context
“XRDS-Simple is a protocol for service discovery.” It ties in with OpenID and other open standards to start providing the foundations of DiSo and other distributed identity systems.
The Atom Publishing Protocol
The Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) is an application-level protocol for publishing and editing Web resources. The protocol is based on HTTP transfer of Atom-formatted representations. The Atom format is documented in the Atom Syndication Format.
The Atom Syndication Format
Official, hyperlinked spec