Re: Payments and Trust

On 9/26/12 8:39 PM, Manu Sporny wrote:
> That said, one of the reasons PaySwarm utilizes URIs for 'Identities'
> and JSON-LD to represent information is precisely because of the unknown
> nature of the trust problem. The same goes for the payments problem. We
> assume that we're not going to get it right the first time, or the
> second time, or the third time. You need flexibility in the system to
> change over time and URIs and Linked Data empower you to do that.
Yes, because URIs and Linked Data facilitate the injection machine 
comprehensible logic into the picture, at Web-scale.

Trust is eternally fluid, ditto logic :-)

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Received on Friday, 28 September 2012 20:28:17 UTC