Re: Does FOAF provide sufficient ontological support for WebID & WWW Identity AUTH REQ's?

On 10 Jun 2014, at 10:12 pm, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:

> On 6/9/14 10:43 PM, Tim Holborn wrote:
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>> On 10 Jun 2014, at 10:36 am, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 10 June 2014 01:49, Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Sent from my iPad
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>>> On 10 Jun 2014, at 2:26 am, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 9 June 2014 17:30, Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Kingsley,
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>>>> thanks for the response. Yes. Current format of WebID (specifically) is simply FOAF.  Calling it WebID when it means FOAF is well...  FOAF.
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>>>> WebID is not coupled to FOAF.  Is FOAF ever mentioned in the spec?
>>> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/identity/
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>>> Sorry, my mistake.  FOAF is indeed mentioned in the spec.  But it is not coupled.
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>> Ok.  My mistake - i thought it was coupled.    
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>>> "WebIDs can be used to build a Web of trust using vocabularies such as FOAF [FOAF]"
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>> Perhaps the documentation could include / notate other vocab used in connection to a WebID-TLS certificate; for example,
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>> http://xmlns.com/wot/0.1/ 
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/
>> http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap
>> http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns
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>> (Which all appear to also use FOAF) 
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>> I also found: http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-vocab-data-cube-20140116/ 
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>>> But the point is that webid is not coupled to FOAF.
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>> Cool.  
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>> Cheers.
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> ACID test question: 
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> Can I make a document comprised of Identity claims, represented using RDF statements, that uses relations to assert possession of a keypair, where none of the relations use terms from the FOAF vocabulary? 
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> Answer: Yes!
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> The <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/cert#cert> relation isn't FOAF vocabulary based. 

Cool.  Perhaps you could show how something like Cimba gets your name and storage location without using FOAF?

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