- From: Joe Presbrey <presbrey@csail.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:43:26 -0400
- To: Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@gmail.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
- Cc: Story Henry <henry.story@bblfish.net>
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the Semantic Web needs to focus on something other than > personal information as the killer application, because people simply > won't go for distributing their personal information to anyone > anywhere without prior authentication and future revocation that is > provided by a centralised authority. Of course FOAF is just served via HTTP which supports countless authentication(authn) and authorization(authz) schemes. Decentralization certainly does NOT preclude the user from using user/agent authn/authz to protect any/all parts of their FOAF. Now suppose RDF was served over some silly centralized infrastructure like DNS... $ dig foaf:knows@www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card#i.ns.rdfns.com txt +short | grep mit "<http://dig.csail.mit.edu/People/RRS>" "<http://web.mit.edu/shinnyih/foaf.rdf#>" "<http://dig.csail.mit.edu/People/yosi#YES>" "<http://presbrey.mit.edu/foaf.rdf#presbrey>" "<http://people.csail.mit.edu/lkagal/foaf#me>" "<http://people.csail.mit.edu/psz/foaf.rdf#me>" "<http://people.csail.mit.edu/ryanlee/about#ryanlee>" "<http://web.mit.edu/ruthdhan/www/foaf.rdf#ruthdhan>" "<http://people.csail.mit.edu/crowell/foaf.rdf#crowell>" "<http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/wiki/people/JoeLambda#JL>" "<http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/wiki/people/RobertHoffmann#RMH>" Then I would have to agree with you that authorization could get a little tricky! I suppose now would be a good time to announce the world's first RDF DNS nameserver, ns.rdfns.com. Best UI for the semantic web yet! :) Best regards, (on linux: dig foaf:name@presbrey.mit.edu/foaf#presbrey.ns.rdfns.com txt +short) (on windows: nslookup -type=txt foaf:name@presbrey.mit.edu/foaf#presbrey.ns.rdfns.com) => "Joe Presbrey"
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