- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 08:58:08 +0200
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Cc: public-webid@w3.org
On 1 Jun 2013, at 20:41, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: > On 6/1/13 12:36 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: >> >> OK, to be clear. You just want to change his role in the current spec, and keep his name as author on the original and previous specs? >> >> To change someone's role due to inactivity seems allowable under the text, tho I suggest consulting with them privately first. > > An Editor denotes one thing. > An Author denotes another. > > Since we can't (all of a sudden) distinguish the two, how about introducing "Creators" to denote those that actually contributed to the creation of the idea in the first place? > > Henry's concern really boils down to the misconception of "Creator" that's arising from "Editor" and "Author". Basically if the perceived "Creator" (who is a spec "Author" and/or "Editor") is seen to publicly express flaws in his/her creation, the general assumption is that the criticized work is seriously flawed [1]. yes, I definitively want to make sure everybody who has participated is duely recognised for their work. We should do this by extending the historical section a bit. > > Hopefully, this has brought some clarity to this matter en route to simple resolution and closure. > > > Links: > > 1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57481166-93/oauth-2.0-leader-resigns-says-standard-is-bad/ -- what I think Henry is concerned about (also triggered my questions to Manu about his WebID criticisms) yes. Small is beautiful. I have not looked at Manu's work because I am overwhelemed with work myself, and I am sure he is too. But I think he is writing an ontology for keys and signatures. He seems to be putting a lot of work into that, and modulo the need for us to have a inverse functional relation from a WebID to a key ( and not documents to keys ), I'd be very happy if we could re-use his work. Perhaps there is space next to the cert ontology for manu's keys ontology, or perhaps it can just be merged into cert. And of course there Manu would be author and editor. It seems that putting something like this into the W3C name space would be very useful. > > 2. http://twitter.com/kidehen/status/339748133468786688 -- How to resolve conflicts based on terminology and meaning. > > -- > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen > Founder & CEO > OpenLink Software > Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen > Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen > > > > > Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/
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