- From: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:01:27 +0200
- To: "ext Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org, ext Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
On Mar 12, 2004, at 20:00, ext Jeremy Carroll wrote: > > > 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 > ... OK. Perhaps using the term trix:Authority simply as a tool for discussion, saying clearly that we're not going to define precisely what it is, but e.g. that it *could* be taken to be the class of entities for which e.g. the following example using PKI would act as authorities... etc. I.e., the precise definition of what a trix:Authority is, is left as future work... Eh? Patrick > > Jeremy > > -- Patrick Stickler Nokia, Finland patrick.stickler@nokia.com
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