Re: HTTPS and the Semantic Web

Why not owl:sameas? Is it technically incorrect?

If it's the correct property to use and widely understood + supported,
saying it's been used incorrectly previously doesn't hold much weight as an
argument against using it correctly to solve a web scale real world problem
simply.
On 21 May 2016 2:28 pm, "Simon Spero" <sesuncedu@gmail.com> wrote:

> There is no necessary between an IRI used in any position in an RDF
> triple, and any #$InformationBearingObject that may be returned as a result
> of  interpreting the  lexical form of such an IRI as a set of procedural
> directives.
>
> There is thus no reason why  Stigmergic Web applications cannot interpret
> these lexical forms such that they perform different actions, with no
> required changes anywhere else.
>
> Meet the new sameAs, same as the old sameAs.
>
> Simon
> On May 21, 2016 12:53 AM, "Harry Halpin" <hhalpin@ibiblio.org> wrote:
>
>> Given that the Semantic Web use of HTTP URIs basically means that any use
>> of 'follow your nose' is easily subverted by anyone with access to the raw
>> HTTP stream, we should just update the Semantic Web specs and reasoners so
>> that TLS is enforced by default and HTTP = HTTP(S).
>>
>> While it is true that some normal web-pages *can* serve different content
>> at TLS than non-TLS, it's currently considered pathological.
>>
>> If the Semantic Web doesn't gracefully deal with the upgrade from HTTP to
>> TLS, it will date itself quite quickly and will not be usable for any
>> real-world usage (notice almost all major sites now are moving to TLS)
>> outside of enterprise use within a firewall or usages where there's no
>> 'follow your nose' effort. In the latter case, I'm not sure if using HTTP
>> URIs makes sense to begin with.
>>
>> Note that the upgrade should be relatively cost-free, see the "Let's
>> Encrypt" effort for free TLS certs.
>>
>> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On May 20, 2016, at 5:02 PM, Nathan Rixham <nathan@webr3.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> ....
>>> An x:alias predicate which asserts that one name (IRI) is an alias of
>>> another name (IRI) would be very useful. <a#b> x:alias <c#d> .
>>>
>>> An x:canonical predicate which asserts <a#b> x:alias <c#d> . and that
>>> <a#b> is the preferred IRI more useful still.
>>>
>>>
>>> Just an observation - it may be that practical needs override formality
>>> - but this is not legal according to the RDF semantics. The truth of a
>>> triple aaa R bbb depends only on what the IRIs in the triple, in particular
>>> aaa and bbb, *denote*, not on their syntactic form. So x:alias would have
>>> the same semantics as owl:sameAs (and we all know what happened to *that*
>>> when it got out into the wide world.)
>>>
>>> We could sneak around this by declaring (contrary to the normative
>>> semantics, but still...) that x:alias is a new kind of property, one that
>>> quotes its arguments and is therefore referentially opaque. There would
>>> have been a time when I would have opposed this idea with some vigor, but
>>> age has mellowed me. And the internal semantic coherence of the Web can
>>> hardly get worse than it is already, so what the hell.  Just be ready for
>>> the truly awful muddle that will arise when x:alias bumps into owl:sameAs
>>> and reasoners try to figure out what the consequences might be.
>>>
>>> A better solution would be to invent, and have everyone adopt[**], a
>>> IRI-quoting-IRI convention, something like x:theIRI# , with the semantics
>>> that x:theIRI#someOtherIRI always denotes someOtherIRI. (Maybe this would
>>> need some clever character-escaping? I leave that to others to work out.)
>>> Then x:theIRI#a#b x:alias x:theIRI#c#d would mean what you want to express,
>>> above.
>>>
>>> Pat Hayes
>>>
>>> [**] There's the rub, of course.
>>>
>>>
>>> Using syntax shortcuts you could add the following triple to the turtle
>>> document at https://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
>>>
>>>    rdf: x:canonical <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
>>>
>>> Result:
>>> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> a owl:Ontology .
>>> <https://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> a owl:Ontology .
>>>
>>>
>>> Point 2:
>>>
>>> Using a 307 redirect for the semantic is nice, but practically click
>>> http://www.w3.org/ns/dcat# and you are redirected, refresh and you find
>>> the client does use the redirected url for subsequent requests.
>>>
>>> As a general person or developer search w3.org for dcat and the results
>>> are https://www.google.com/search?q=site:w3.org%20dcat - the url listed
>>> is the https url.
>>>
>>> Usage of the https IRIs will enter the web of data ever increasingly,
>>> whether people say the http one should be used or not.
>>>
>>> Point 3:
>>>
>>> Practically taking a simple real world step like migrating to a CDN will
>>> often give http/2+tls thus https IRIs automatically.
>>>
>>> Test case:
>>>
>>> Alice has a wordpress/drupal site that publishes RDF automatically. She
>>> doesn't know about the RDF.
>>> Alice clicks the "free CDN" button in her hosting account.
>>> Alice now has https and http IRIs in RDF on both http:// and https://
>>> protocols.
>>>
>>> Personally I cannot think of anything easier than as best practise
>>> adding a single triple to rdf documents when migrating protocols. Anything
>>> within the black box will fail and be implemented incorrectly.
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 12:42 AM, Melvin Carvalho <
>>> melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 20 May 2016 at 20:08, Phil Archer <phila@w3.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Not a moan about spam, or a CfP, but an actual discussion point, yay!
>>>>>
>>>>> I've just blogged about our use of HTTPS across www.w3.org which
>>>>> raises some questions for this community. Please see
>>>>> https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/05/https-and-the-semantic-weblinked-data/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On the one hand more security is a nice to have, but on the other, Cool
>>>> URIs dont change.  It's really hard to estimate the cost, and unintended
>>>> consequences of changing URIs.  But my feeling is that we systematically
>>>> underestimate it.
>>>>
>>>> IMHO, It's kind of a shame that http wasnt made secure, and that a new
>>>> scheme https was invented.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Comments welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Phil Archer
>>>>> W3C Data Activity Lead
>>>>> http://www.w3.org/2013/data/
>>>>>
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>>>>> +44 (0)7887 767755
>>>>> @philarcher1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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