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-The <a href="http://www.salmon-protocol.org/home">Salmon protocol</a> provides for aggregating comments across sites.  If a site that syndicates a feed receives a comment on an item in that feed, it can re-post the comment to the original source.
+The <a href="http://www.salmon-protocol.org/home">Salmon protocol</a>
+provides for aggregating comments across sites.  If a site that syndicates
+a feed receives a comment on an item in that feed, it can re-post the
+comment to the original source.
+
+> Ikiwiki does not allow comments to be posted on items it aggregates.
+> So salmon protocol support would only need to handle the comment
+> receiving side of the protocol.
+> 
+> The current draft protocol document confuses me when it starts talking
+> about using OAuth in the abuse prevention section, since their example
+> does not show use of OAuth, and it's not at all clear to me where the
+> OAuth relationship between aggregator and original source is supposed
+> to come from.
+> 
+> Their security model, which goes on to include Webfinger,
+> thirdparty validation services, XRD, and Magic Signatures, looks sorta
+> like they kept throwing technology,  at it, hoping something will stick. :-P
+> --[[Joey]]
 
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