Re: httpRange proposed text

Tim Berners-Lee wrote,
> If people make conflicting statements about one thing, that is
> contradiction, not ambiguity.   

Agreed.

But making conflicting assertions about the same thing isn't the only 
possible source of error. Independent agents using the same identifier 
in conflicting ways is another source. Perhaps that's not always due to 
the identifier being ambiguous, but it often is.

> If someone else contradicts the owner, they are wrong.

Where does this leave the use of RDF when it comes to, say, building 
reputation networks? Suppose I want to assert of http://www.crooks.com/ 
that it's untrustworthy: if the owner gets to determine the truth of 
assertions concerning that URI, then it seems unlikely that I'll be 
able to do it.

Cheers,


Miles

Received on Monday, 5 August 2002 11:13:35 UTC