- From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) <len.bullard@intergraph.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:39:47 -0600
- To: "'Roy T. Fielding'" <fielding@gbiv.com>, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
These principles should cover the principle of least responsibility where the principle of least authority failed to do more than insulate an anonymous source from misattribution, miscalculation or slander/libel. The problems of Wikipedia are showing the application of that in spades. Once one starts using link counts as an assertion of authority, the court of opinion becomes all powerful. The governments are our least worry. Sometimes the wisdom of crowds is the wisdom of the largely uncaring, uninformed and only in it for the thrills of the noise. An interesting application of the semantic web would be one where an *ontology of most importance* is applied to a published text to determine that given the assertions made on the page, who should be notified. A record of authority does not have to be a record of ownership; it can be a record of vetting or proofing the assertions. If you ever build an internal affairs module, you'll understand this. len
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