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<\/div>\nThere is just one problem with it: the dependencies are all wrong. For example, OpenID does not depend on OAuth; both depend on XRDS-Simple, however. That means the stack isn’t actually a stack and perhaps a lot more confusing than it needs to be…<\/p>\n
What about this instead:<\/p>\n
A somewhat problematic picture has been floating around recently depicting the so-called “Open Stack”: There is just one problem with it: the dependencies are all wrong. For example, OpenID does not depend on OAuth; both depend on XRDS-Simple, however. That means the stack isn’t actually a stack and perhaps a lot more confusing than it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital_identity","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/open-stack.png\" "\\"open-stack\\"")
<\/a>Can we change this *before* too many people pick up this picture as their battly cry? Proposed improvements very much welcome; this is difficult to visualize. Please let me know. And if you can think of a better name for it, that’d be good too. (Just check Google<\/a> what others think the term means)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"