Re: Vote: public_key, publicKey, hasPublicKey, pubKey

On 10 Oct 2011, at 20:08, Melvin Carvalho wrote:

> On 10 October 2011 20:02, Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 10 Oct 2011, at 19:25, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>>>  is for cert:pubKey  +1
>>> 
>>> It may be good to be consistent with other ontologies e.g.
>>> 
>>> http://payswarm.com/vocabs/security
>>> 
>> 
>> A public key property refers to a URL that contains information about a public key.
>> 
>> sec: publicKey
>> Status: unstable
>> Domain: sec:Key, owl:Thing
>> Range: xsd:anyURI
>> The following example demonstrates the expression of a public key belonging to the identity https://payswarm.example.com/i/bob.
>> 
>> That is a completely different relation. The relation we are putting forward in the cert ontology is from a
>> person/agent to a mathematical public key. The sec ontology refers to a different relation.
>> 
>> So on your argument we should not use the same name then, since that would be confusing.
> 
> My current WebID public key is a URI
> 
> ( http://melvincarvalho.com/#key1 )
> 
> As I try to avoid using bnodes, if I can.

That's not a problem. Your public key is not a URI, it is named by a URI. The key itself is astill a mathematical
structure. 



> 
>> 
>>> so cert:publicKey +1
>>> 
>>> I see the point about confusion, but Java uses Double and double, for
>>> class and literal, and tho it is confusing, I think still usable
>> 
>> It is not so much a question of confusion, as of making it easier to make typos.
>> 
>> 
>> Henry
>> 
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>> 
>> 

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