Extended identity for social networks

Authors

Antonio Tapiador*
Department of Telematics Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Antonio Fumero
Department of Telematics Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Joaquin Salvachua
Department of Telematics Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

Abstract

Nowadays, we are experiencing the commoditisation of social networking platforms. There are trends towards integrating both content- and contact-oriented platforms. However, social networks remain as data silos in relation to each other. This contribution proposes an architecture for distributed social networking. Based on the notion of distributed user-centric identity, our proposal extends this by attaching profile information. It also bridges the gap between distributed identity and distributed publishing capabilities.