- From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:14:04 -0400
- To: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>, "Garret Wilson" <garret@globalmentor.com>
- Cc: "Frederick Hirsch" <hirsch@fjhirsch.com>, <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>
On Saturday 27 April 2002 05:20, Graham Klyne wrote: > >Is there someone working on an RDF Schema for W3C XML Signatures? It > > would be great to have an RDF ontology for signatures, so that would > > could specify signatures within an RDF description instance. > > Sorry, no answers for you, but this sounds like the sort of think that > Joseph Reagle might be thinking about... I've thought that this indeed would be a great thing to have. I'm afraid that's about all I've done so far! <smile/> (There's been previous emails approaching the topic [1]) [1]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-ietf-xmldsig/2001JulSep/0013.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2001Mar/0076.html > Regarding (a), I take the view that a signature applies to a string of > bits or bytes, and regard attempts to sign the abstract content as > unnecessarily problematic. So S/MIME, PGP/MIME or XMLDSIG all work just > fine by my reckoning. Right, this is a tricky question that's bothered me for a while. (How does one identify a serialized RDF statement within a file? The hashing I'm seeing on cwm is at the file level.) > I think (b) is an interesting project, if nobody's done anything about it > already. I would suggest a goal would be that an RDF graph can describe > the bare assurance conveyed by a given digital signature on some content > (a document that encoded information <foo> was signed by identity <bar> > using a signature method <fie> and a key with certificate attributes > <foe> certifies by authority <fum> ... etc.) I'd be happy to work with a RDF guru towards this end.
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