RE: REQDOC: Need final input!

On second look, that might have been Dan Connolly's wording - oops.
-Ned

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> Subject: RE: REQDOC: Need final input!
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> Not to split hairs, but the wording in the last line of Jeff Heflin's
> text might raise some flags. "It should be straightforward" may
> suggest we don't understand the basis of the interaction between XML
> Signatures and OWL. 
> 
> I recommend wording to the effect of:
> ...
> "XML Signatures and cononicalization transformations can be applied
> safely to OWL expressions because OWL conforms to the XML standard."
> 
> -Ned
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> > From: Jim Hendler [mailto:hendler@cs.umd.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:37 PM
> > To: Dan Connolly; Jeff Heflin
> > Cc: WebOnt
> > Subject: Re: REQDOC: Need final input!
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> > At 4:33 PM -0600 2/26/02, Dan Connolly wrote:
> > >On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 10:09, Jeff Heflin wrote:
> > >[...]
> > >>  6) "Integration of digital signatures" - Dan Connolly had 
> > volunteered to
> > >>  provide alternate wording.
> > >
> > >Crud... sorry... in case this is still helpful:
> > >
> > >	The W3C XML Digital Signature specification is
> > >	an important building block for communication among
> > >	untrusted parties, which is important for many
> > >	ontology applications [, for example, ...?].
> > >	It should be straightforward to use XML Signatures
> > >	with OWL.
> > >
> > 
> > all of the use cases need digital sigs, but the agents and ubiq 
> > computing probably the most of all of the ones in the current use 
> > cases, so I think if we just left out the missing "for example"
> > from  this and included those two as the motivators, this would be
> > a good  change
> >   -JH
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