Re: Web Identity and Discovery - WebID 1.0

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho@gmail.com>wrote:

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> On 6 February 2013 12:50, Andrei Sambra <andrei.sambra@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Melvin Carvalho <
>> melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 6 February 2013 12:39, Andrei Sambra <andrei.sambra@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> As promised, I have updated the spec according to the latest poll
>>>> results. I've also cleaned it up a little, mainly fixing inconsistencies
>>>> with some terms.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to ask everyone to take a look and see if everything is ok
>>>> before we move to WebID-TLS.
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>>>> Here is the link to the latest version:
>>>> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/WebID/raw-file/tip/spec/identity-respec.html
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>>> "A WebID is an HTTP URI which uniquely denotes an Agent (Person,
>>> Organization, Group, Device, etc.)."
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>>> Do we need the work 'uniquely' in there?  I'm slightly unclear on what
>>> it means.
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>> It means that the WebID URI is a unique identifier. Maybe I should
>> replace "denotes" with "identifies", though there is no official definition
>> for what "identification" is (hence it's much easier to say denotes, but
>> maybe not as strong).
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It meanst that the WebID _URI_ is unique -- i.e. my WebID URI will describe
me and only me.


> Still not sure I have understood what 'unique' means in this context?
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>> Andrei
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>>>> Best,
>>>> Andrei
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Received on Wednesday, 6 February 2013 12:02:24 UTC