- From: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:09:29 +0200
- To: "Scheppe, Kai-Dietrich" <k.scheppe@telekom.de>
- CC: Public POWDER <public-powderwg@w3.org>
oh, and on more thing: good talk by the way, I enjoyed it very much! ;) Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote: > > Hi Kai, > > This response won't be much help, but you may be interested to know that > we've had the same discussion around EARL. How do you trust a report put > on a Web site or some kind of a repository? > > We have not taken specific action on this, except to try and explain how > a security layer could be placed on-top of the EARL format. For example, > by using signatures on the XML serialization of the RDF. > > I agree with you that this is an important topic that always comes up in > one form or the other. I'd be interested if the POWDER folks can come up > with something that we can reuse for EARL... ;) > > Regards, > Shadi > > > Scheppe, Kai-Dietrich wrote: >> Phil had asked about China and the WWW2008 conference. >> >> Yes, there is something to report. >> I gave a short presentation on POWDER. It went fine, people seemed >> interested, there were few questions. >> >> However, one point came up in several conversations with several people >> - that of security. >> >> Basically I was asked: >> How do you ensure that the DR which has been written does in fact >> come from that person or entity? >> >> I believe we had, a long time ago, discussed digital signatures, but >> wasn't sure what had come of all that. >> >> >> Question to the group: Will we deal with that? And if yes, how? >> >> The easy way out would be to say no, trust is up to the user and we >> won't bother, but I was struck by how this point came up several times >> independently, thus I think it is not something to be brushed aside. >> >> -- Kai >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > -- Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/ | WAI International Program Office Activity Lead | W3C Evaluation & Repair Tools Working Group Chair |
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