- From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 13:47:21 +0100
- To: DAWG Mailing List <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:03:58AM -0400, Kendall Clark wrote: > It also makes for lumpy (i.e., inconsistent) semantics, since FROM > <service-provider-uri> doesn't mean the same thing as FROM > <any-other-graph-uri>; or, if it does mean the same thing, it's an > unnecessary constraint on the service provider, which is now required to > publish the triples it wants every query to be executed against (in addition > to any other ones the requester specifies) at some URI. > > > It seems reasonble to me that the default behaviour should be to trust > > whatever the service trusts, overridable by specifying given graphs. After > > all, the client is passing the request to a specific service to answer. > > Hmm, I think talk of "trust" is misleading. But, otherwise, I agree. That > is, using my earlier example, I don't trust myself, I simply believe that p, > and I want p to be one of the claims that is in the background when I answer > queries. Other, *pure* query answering services may not have any background > beliefs, which is fine. Agreed, as soon as I typed ZZ I realised I shouldn't have used the T word. Sorry. I was using it as a macro for all-the-stuff-to-do-with-provenance. - Steve
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