- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 21:28:45 -0400
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
On 5/24/21 2:58 PM, Gregg Kellogg wrote: >> On May 24, 2021, at 10:43 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org >> <mailto:danbri@danbri.org>> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 24 May 2021 at 16:47, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com >> <mailto:msporny@digitalbazaar.com>> wrote: >> >> ... >> >> >> Yeah. Peter picked up and ran with my main outstanding technical question >> on the input documents which was about recursion. >> >> There remain larger expectation-management questions along lines of who >> should expect this WG's products to be relevant to their work - e.g. large >> scale RDF publication, the Linked Open Data Cloud kinds of site, or >> Wikidata, DBpedia, Yago, ... or ordinary sites publishingSchema.org >> <http://schema.org/>markup? Do we envisage >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download#RDF_dumps >> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download#RDF_dumps>being >> improved by this work in a couple of years, for example? > > I see a couple of issues here: > > * How do you sign a signed dataset, > * How do you extract just the signature bits, particularly if there are > multiple parallel signatures, or recursive signatures, > * Can a signature block contain any information that could convey some > unsigned information that is subject to misrepresentation. Indeed. > > I’m not sure we need to answer these questions now, but they should be among > the list of prerequisites for the WG to address. There is always the > potential that there are problems that can’t be solved which could lead to > the failure of one or more normative specs to advance, but that is always > the case. It becomes a judgement if the time is worth investing weighing the > probability that such questions can be properly answered. Agreed. A big problem, in my view, is the impression being given that all the problems have been solved. And not just solved but examined, signed off, and implemented. peter
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