- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:16:31 +0200
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 16:00 26/07/2006, John Foliot - WATS.ca wrote: >Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > > Until there is > > some kind of trust framework, I don't suppose that they are likely to > > generally believe a lot of metadata (historically their approach has > > been not to trust individual metadata, and it has worked as an > > anti-spam technique to a certain extent). > > > >It occurs to me that this is where the missing-in-action EARL would >(should!) come to play, especially if there were the ability to somehow >"digitally sign" the EARL report with a trusted certificate - be it >either a "hard-core" code-signing certificate or even a light-weight PGP >or Thawte style email signing certificate - any type of 3rd party, >trusted authority certificate would suffice. The simple fact that a >person is prepared to put their name on the line in the assertion of >"accessibility" would go a long way, IMHO, to establish that trust. > >Hello EARL, where are you? The ERT WG is actively working on the next draft of EARL. They recently also discussed if the next update should be published as a Working Draft or Last Call Working Draft. The current editors' working draft is at http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/EARL10/WD-EARL10-Schema-20060718. Regards, Christophe Strobbe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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