- From: Dan Brickley <Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 09:16:57 +0000 (GMT)
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
- cc: Jason Diamond <jason@injektilo.org>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Sean B. Palmer wrote: > > Why do you care what kind of URIs people use to identify > > themselves? It shouldn't matter whether they choose any of > > mailto, http, ldap, uuid, or even urn as their favorite scheme > > as long as it's unique. > > I'm simply suggesting that email boxes are "owned" and therefore it is > easier to assert statements when using them as a unique identifier for a > persons interface to the Web. Look at Dan's FOAF stuff - > http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1 > > If I said I "owned" an http:// URI, how easy would that be to prove > (ignoring TLDs - not everybody owns a TLD)? I not sure if it proves an 'owns' relation, but Dan Connolly once suggested the following procedure for verifying 'hasWriteAccessTo': the suspicious party provides some long random number, and the supposed owner embeds it in the content dereferencable at the debated URI. --dan
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