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Trust
- Can I trust a metadata on the Web?
- is the author the one who claims he/she is? Can I check the credentials?
- can I trust the inference engine?
- etc.
- Some of the basic building blocks are available:
- e.g., XML Signature/Encryption
- Much is missing, e.g.:
- how to “express” trust? (E.g., trust in context.)
- a “canonical” form of triplets (in RDF/XML or other)
- necessary for unambiguous signatures
- exhaustive tests for inference engines
- protocols to check, for example, a signature
- It is on the “future” stack of W3C …
Current and Future Developments