Re: transfer of URI/WebID ownership

On 10 Oct 2012, at 11:12, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

> 
> 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.
>> 
>> How would I invalidate that WebID <http://webr3.org/nathan#me> and use a new one?
> 
> 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.
> 
> One thing to do would be to let all the people who you form you social network with 
> know to change your webid. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> But I think the question is here: is a 301

A duh. I meant a 302 Moved Permanently! I think I got that wrong in most of this
thread. 

    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webid/2012Apr/0006.html

> 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?
> 
> Henry
> 
> 
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