Re: self-signed

On 4/19/11 4:46 PM, Dan Brickley wrote:
> [snip]
>
> For the sake of all our inboxes, can this lengthy discussion be turned
> into discussion of proposed text for a WebID specification?
>
> For example, who can live with:
>
> "A WebID is a URI (IRI, technically). Although the basic operation of
> the protocol is applicable to any URI scheme for which there is some
> practical notion of 'de-reference'[1], initial implementors have found
> most interoperability through using the common http and https
> schemes."
> I don't particular care for this text. But I care to see people
> arguing productively, and that's more likely when we keep our eyes on
> the prize...

+1
> I suggest an analogy with HTML's<img>  tag; somehow the market settles
> on conventions for what to point to, without the spec having to
> dictate particular versions of particular allowed formats.

+1

Kingsley
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>
> issue: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/track/issues/55
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#dereference-uri
>
>


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Received on Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:26:11 UTC