What is Diso?

Diso is an initiative to facilitate the creation of open, non-proprietary and interoperable building blocks for the decentralized social web. Some of us are now brainstorming DiSo2.

Main concepts

• Identity & Profile
• Discovery
• Authorization
• Relationships & Contacts
• Activities
• Groups
• User Stories 

DiSo Technologies

• OpenID
• XRDS-Simple
• OAuth
• Portable Contacts + XFN
• Activity Streams and ATOM Media

Advocacy

• Position Papers
• Demand OpenID (source code)

Contributors and co-founders

• Chris Messina, Steve Ivy, Will Norris, Stephen Paul Weber, Tantek Çelik