2. A few recent days in the news…

4. Lots of “open social web” building blocks…

9. Portable Contacts: The missing piece
Effort underway to standardize:
contact schema
discovery / auth
common operations
Focused on ease & speed of adoption
Active involvement from large & small players
More info & current draft spec:

10. Making people data portable: it really works!
User signs in with an OpenID
Site fetches OpenID URL  looks for X-XRDS-Location
Site parses XRDS-Simple doc to discover available APIs
Site tries to access contacts API  gets a 401
WWW-Authenticate response header specifies OAuth
OAuth Discovery (via XRDS) provides OAuth endpoints
Site sends user though OAuth flow to grant access
User returns to site with authorized access token
Site can now access users’ contacts data via API + token

18. So, in conclusion…