Re: Web Identity and Discovery - WebID 1.0

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

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> On 6 Feb 2013, at 12:58, 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.
>>>>
>>>> Here is the link to the latest version:
>>>> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/WebID/raw-file/tip/spec/identity-respec.html
>>>>
>>>
>>> "A WebID is an HTTP URI which uniquely denotes an Agent (Person,
>>> Organization, Group, Device, etc.)."
>>>
>>> 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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> We used to have "refers". I find that much stronger than "denotes", which
> is not that widely used. "Identifies" is wrong, because what identifies is
> the description. So you really want
> to say that the description tied to the WebID in the profile document
> uniquely identifies the agent. But that is talk for the profile section.
>
> Essentially what is missing in the Profile section is the statment that
> the
> Profile document must uniquely describe the referent of the WebID.
>

I agree. I've updated the spec accordingly.

Andrei

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> 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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>>>
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>
>    Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
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>

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