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Future Developments
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?
    • what about IPR of the metadata?
    • etc.
  • Some of the basic building blocks are available:
    • XML Signature/Encryption
    • XML based Key Management is in preparation
  • Much is missing, e.g.:
    • a “canonical” form of RDF/XML
      • necessary for unambiguous signatures
    • exhaustive tests for inference engines
    • protocols to check, for example, a signature
  • It is on the “future” stack of W3C…

Ivan Herman, W3C 112 (134)