Re: Named graphs etc

(also de-lurking... www-archive-request, who knew?! 8-)

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 04:08:37PM -0500, Dan Brickley wrote:
> Just to de-lurk, yes this all makes sense. One technique that I believe 
> to be deployable (even if a pragmatic hack) is PGP signing RDF files.
> For eg see http://usefulinc.com/foaf/signingFoafFiles
> 
> PGP only assures that the file hasn't been changed since the signer 
> interacted with it, doesn't assure that the signer asserts it.

Right.

> My 
> working guess is that, if the doc itself claims that the signer is its 
> creator, that is enough to bootstrap the claim that the signer asserts
> the triples encoded in the rdf/xml. Potentially tenuous but I can't
> think of how else to roll this stuff out...

There's always the media type.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2004JanMar/thread.html#75

Mark.
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Mark Baker.   Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.        http://www.markbaker.ca

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