Re: High-level social web guiding principles to SWxG

On 3 Feb 2010, at 14:42, Story Henry wrote:

>>  http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/SocialWebFrameworks
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The Social Web User is a unique individual (unique DNA, one person).
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I think you should add an icon for a robot, for a company or organization (which can act), for a group of people too... Not all agents are going to be DNA based.

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Distributed Property:
A profile property that is located and managed by (or "informed" and updated by) a service provider.
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You may as well think of distributed properties in terms of the documents on which those are written. Documents are served up by different services: you can't get more basic than that. Every architecture will have that. 

This is going back to the core of philosophy of meaning. 

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_act

We can think here in terms of document acts if you want. 

A distributed property is one that appears on a document served by some other service.

So Agent A says "Joe's age is 21".

Agent B believes that.

And so Agent B allows agent Joe access to his wine collection.

The notion of a distributed property as such does not really make sense. But we all understand what it means to rely on someone else for information.

Henry

Received on Wednesday, 3 February 2010 14:28:07 UTC