- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:59:11 +0100
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-webid <public-webid@w3.org>
- Message-Id: <E42491B7-EC20-4348-BAD2-5C6EBCA64235@bblfish.net>
On 30 Mar 2013, at 14:45, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > Summarizing the thread. > > I proposed that the Domain of : key be more general than Agent, since a public key is just a number, more than just an agent could have such a key. The :key relation relates an agent to a public key of which he has the private key. This means that one can understand what it is to verify that an agent has a key. > An example I gave was that an account (e.g. belonging to an agent) could have a key pair. the whole question is what does it mean to "have a key pair" . > > Henry raised the point that you would then lose an inference that the subject of a key was an Agent. However you should really use rdfs : type for this imho. My point was that - changing the domain means that you have developed a completely different relation which is not the same as cert:key. - that it does not make things simpler as you initially claimed it would - that it is ill defined - that your reasons for wanting to introduces it rely on handwaving some ontology which has not been developed - that you can't tell us what it would mean for the relation to apply to inanimate objects - that you don't distinguish nonsensical from sensical applications of the term, when it is applied outside of the realm of agents. > > Henry also raised the point that it would be possible to construct triples such as the eiffel tower having a public key. Unsure if this is a big deal, or even a demerit :) You could not tell us why you thought this was or was not nonsensical, what it would mean, etc... > > There was a small straw poll which was pretty evenly balanced, slightly in favour of keeping the status quo. > > If there's further interest in this I'll raise an issue at some point. But I think I have enough to model what I want to now. > Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/
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