Re: Domain of :key

On 29 March 2013 08:37, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

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> On 22 Mar 2013, at 10:42, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Currently we have:
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>     rdfs:domain foaf:Agent;
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> This seems slightly restrictive.
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> Many things can have a key, e.g. a certificate, an account, an app etc.
> Agent perhaps does not cover every conceivable use case?
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> You can create new relations to relate those things to keys if you need to.
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>   foaf:primaryTopic can relate a document keys it is about for example.
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> We need a relation to relate the agent that is the one that controls the
> private key
> of the public key to the public key, as that is what WebID authentication
> and most
> other protocols need to work.
>

In bitcoin users have a pseudo anonymous account.  Each account has a key
pair.  It would be great to be able to model this.

It's perhaps the most serious use of PKI on the web after ecommerce.


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> Is the parent of Agent an owl : Thing?
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