- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:00:20 +0000
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>, ext Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>, www-archive@w3.org
Pat Hayes wrote: > We could of course offer the pragmatic advice that if ex:thing is a > graph or a web resource, then the agent is understood to be the owner of > that resource. But this is a work-around, seems to me, rather than a > principled way to handle this issue. (Can't you just hear the debates > this will produce? People are still arguing about using homepage URIs to > identify people.) > > I would like us to punt on that aspect of the whole matter, and just > assume that there is some externally-provided way to determine if the > agent doing the publishing is the one referred to in the graph, which is > all that really matters. Having ex:thing be the URI of the graph or > document is one way, but there might be others. > I've just tried to show how we could sketch how, ex:thing could refer to a person or company, and then we can link the verification of sigs into current technology (I doubt you've got there yet Pat). However, I feel happier with a punt overall, perhaps with a short sketch that shows how current Public Key Infrastructure can be used ... Jeremy
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