Unless somebody tells me they were first and I just haven’t heard about it yet, I’d like to announce the world’s first YADIS URLs.
In fact, as of today, all of the URLs hosted by mylid.net are YADIS-enabled, such as
(You can sign up for one here yourself if you’d like to have one, too)
Now, I realize that there isn’t an officially blessed YADIS spec yet, and it is better practice to only point to official standards, instead of to things hashed out on a whiteboard in the meeting last Thursday. But I couldn’t resist … ;-) and it demonstrates just how simple and powerful the YADIS spec is.
So far, all the implementation does is make available the capabilities document using the X-YADIS-Location HTTP header. It lists the capabilities supported there — seven at last count (MinimumLID, LID SSO, LID Post Receiver Profile, Format Negotiation, Traversal, LID Post Sender and Relying Party), which are the same seven LID profiles currently implemented there.
We have also just published some simple developer tools for YADIS development in the YADIS area on the NetMesh Developer’s Site. They allow YADIS developers to test their conformance to the YADIS spec; we are planning to update them as the spec progresses towards V1.0.
As usual, the code is open-source (dual licensed) and available from netmesh.org/downloads in PHP, Perl and Java, with the same functionality. It’s also available in a hosted model at mylid.net.