Re: Zero Click Bitcoin Micropayments using HTTP 402

On 12/31/14 9:39 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
> So even if one could do the same thing with HTTP 402 the question 
> remains: Why would
> this be better unless 402 got a built-in payment hook[*] in the browser? 

The problem here is that you are not connecting critical dots re. what 
HTTP enables, ditto what the RDF language (system of signs, syntax, and 
semantics) formalizes, retrospectively:

1. HTTP is a data exchange protocol
2. You can use logic to deductively perform all sorts of operations over 
HTTP
3. HTTP also includes the ability to create subject, predicate, object 
statements (via Link: notation in request and response headers) .

1-3 enabled communications to be driven by logic via the semantics of 
"Link:" based relations (what RDF subject, predicate, object statements 
represent).

This might help:

RDF is a formalization of what already existed in AWWW. By that I mean 
<link/> (in HTML) and "Link:"  (in HTTP) notations for relation 
representation have always been part of overall Web narrative. RDF 
is/was an attempt to formalize this aspect of the Web such that 
relations could also be represented using additional notations: RDF/XML 
(initial addition, which caused nothing but confusion due to really poor 
narratives etc..), TURTLE (which sanitized matters and enabled LOD 
bootstrap), JSON-LD (which is sanitizing matters for Web Developers that 
work with JSON) etc..

This is why I sent you links about Language and Logic [1] so that you 
can see where we are coming from in regards to Logic and Trust related 
matters. BTW -- WebID-TLS is just one example of using logic to 
determine Trust via a TLS session where data for inference is accessed 
from a WebID-Profile document.  As long as we stick with 1-3 above, we 
can use logic to construct a variety of smart Trust Models that are 
never pegged to a specific notation, document type, programming 
language, or operating environment.

Link:

[1] http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/rolelog.pdf

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