- From: Graham Klyne <GK@Dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 17:32:40 +0100
- To: "McBride, Brian" <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: "RDF Interest (E-mail)" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
At 07:27 AM 9/7/00 +0100, McBride, Brian wrote: [Many good points. Here's one that prompted me to respond...] > >Request for an algorithm to digitally sign a model. > This is a topic close to my current interests. I don't think it makes sense to _sign_ a _model_. In saying this, I distinguish between a model, and its serialization. A model is an abstraction, which captures the essence of some RDF statements. A signature as applied to some sequence of bits or bytes. Different serializations of the same model will have different signatures. What I think *is* meaningful is to represent the _assurance_ conferred by a signature on some serialized RDF in an RDF model. I am currently thinking that contexts can be used to do this. #g PS: for the issue list, it may be good to separate issues with the current spec from issues for future development. I think this is the latter. ------------ Graham Klyne (GK@ACM.ORG)
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