What is DiSo?

DiSo is an initiative to facilitate the creation of open, non-proprietary and interoperable building blocks for the decentralized social web.

Contributors

• Chris Messina
• Will Norris
• Steve Ivy
• Stephen Paul Weber

Main concepts

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

DiSo Technologies

• OpenID + hcard
• XRDS-Simple
• OAuth
• PoCo + XFN
• hAtom + hAction (?)

Advocacy

• Position Papers
• Demand OpenID (source code)