{"id":1632,"date":"2007-12-02T19:20:32","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T23:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/02\/facebook-and-decentralized-identifiers\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T19:20:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T23:20:36","slug":"facebook-and-decentralized-identifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/02\/facebook-and-decentralized-identifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Decentralized Identifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mooseyard.com\/Jens\/2007\/12\/facebook-and-decentralized-identifiers\/\">Jens Alfke<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/mooseyard.com\/Jens\/2007\/12\/facebook-and-decentralized-identifiers\/\">\n<p>The best approach to identification seems to be to give up on having the identifier try to prove its own relationship to a &#8220;principal&#8221; (person or entity). Instead, the <strong>relationships are given as external statements made by other principals<\/strong>. The identifier itself can then just be a random unique number (such as a public key, which is easy to generate) with no intrinsic mnemonic value.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jens Alfke: The best approach to identification seems to be to give up on having the identifier try to prove its own relationship to a &#8220;principal&#8221; (person or entity). Instead, the relationships are given as external statements made by other principals. The identifier itself can then just be a random unique number (such as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}