- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 15:12:13 -0400
- CC: rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
I don't think it's that simple. It seems to me that a sender may be transmitting RDF (i.e., this media type) for all sorts of reasons, only one of which is that the sender asserts the RDF content. Even for simple RDF content (ignoring reification, and other complications), couldn't the sender be forwarding RDF asserted by someone else? Or including it as an attachment to an email message whose text is "the attached is baloney"? The interpretation of RDF statements as assertions (and exactly who or what is doing the asserting) is certainly something that needs to be cleaned up, but it seems to me that a revised RDF M&S specification, rather than the media type definition, is probably the place to do it. --Frank Aaron Swartz wrote: > snip > > - It needs to be clear that an RDF statement is an assertion. > http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-assertion > > As was clear in Dan Connolly's draft[1], it is important that the media type > specification make this point clear. I have included the wording: > > Because RDF is a format for semantically-meaningful information, it is > important to note that transmission of RDF via HTTP, SMTP or some > similar protocol, means that the sender asserts the content of the RDF > document. > -- Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-8752
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