Re: transfer of URI/WebID ownership

On 11 Oct 2012, at 13:31, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

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> On 10 Oct 2012, at 11:12, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:
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>> On 10 Oct 2012, at 01:37, Nathan <nathan@webr3.org> wrote:
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>>> Was just thinking.. if I let my domain expire (webr3.org), then somebody else can assume my WebIdentity.
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>>> How would I invalidate that WebID <http://webr3.org/nathan#me> and use a new one?
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>> The same problem will exist with all forms of naming  schemes I think. If you use a Tor server tied to a cryptographic key you can loose your key.
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>> One thing to do would be to let all the people who you form you social network with 
>> know to change your webid. 
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>> The best is to do this before you loose your domain, perhaps by having your WebID profile
>> redirect with a 301 to your new profile. The new profile would for a time have your old
>> and your new WebID linked by owl:sameAs.
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>> But I think the question is here: is a 301
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> A duh. I meant a 302 Moved Permanently! I think I got that wrong in most of this
> thread. 
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>    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webid/2012Apr/0006.html

Arg! No I think Tim was wrong in that post. It is 301 Moved Permanently
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.2

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>> also a signal of a change of WebID, since
>> the document has moved permanently, do #uris in the old document also need to be
>> moved permanently?
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>> Henry
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