Re: The 'resource' identified by a namespace name URI should be the namespace

• From: John Aldridge <john.aldridge@informatix.co.uk>
• Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 18:24:27 +0100
• To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
• Cc: xml-uri@w3.org
• Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000605180936.0349c3f0@mailhost>

At 12:57 05/06/00 -0400, Dan Brickley wrote:
>- the terms defined in a Web vocabulary need Web identifiers so others
>   can make statements about them.

OK.

>- we need to know which such statements are authoritative, ie. produced
>   by the creator of that vocabulary, not gossip, mappings etc produced
>   elsewhere.
>
>URIs help with the former; connecting namespace URIs to notion of
>authority helps with the latter.

I don't think so.  Statements don't divide neatly into the two classes 
"authoritative" and "gossip".  There is a (potentially large) class of 
statements made by people other than the namespace owner, but which I want 
to regard as trustworthy for the purpose of some processing I am doing.  As 
John Cowan suggested elsewhere, digital signatures are a more appropriate 
mechanism (if you care that much).
--
Cheers,
John

Received on Monday, 5 June 2000 13:24:46 UTC