Re: Google Docs as capabilities as data

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Kenton Varda <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Dirk Pranke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> However, *implementing* the webkey-based model (from scratch) is
>> (probably) more work than either of the other two and hence why we don't
>> see it all that often.
>>
>
> I disagree.
>
> First, with webkeys, you don't need a centralized identity authority or
> authentication system.  Authentication is pretty non-trivial to implement.
>  You can, of course, outsource authentication to Google or Facebook, but I
> don't think that counts as "from scratch".
>

I think it is difficult to really evaluate the relative complexity of the
two approaches, at least without having to hash out a lot more requirements
than was my intent to do here. That's why I was fairly wishy-washy in my
statements above.

You are free to disagree with my hypothesis even so :).

-- Dirk

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