ISSUE: trust (from the public comments page)

 In a message to our public comments page [1]  John Yanosy of Motorola provides a nice UML diagram of our goals and  requirements, and raises some issue about how we mention trust in the  reqs and how our work might go - in particular whether some things in  P3P would be worth considering.  He brings up some specific topics  that I think we need to address (even if it is only to leave them  unresolved in the end) because people will want to know where we  stand on this.  I therefore raise the issue formally below  [1]  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webont-comments/2002Apr/0006.html   ISSUE: Trust and Ontology  DESCRIPTION:  (From mail to public-webont-comments by John Yanosy, Motorola): After briefly reviewing P3P, it appears that a similar concept could be used to share information about trust aspects of an ontology, I am not even sure what these trust aspects are at this time, but I suspect it is worthwhile to think about them at this initial requirements stage. It might be useful when creating an ontology that relies on other ontologies to be able to set some preferences about the trust levels desired with respect to shared ontologies.  Some trust properties might include: *	reference to trusted third party for ontology integrity *	responsible party identification for ontology authentication *	commitment level to maintaining ontology integrity *	standard or consortium references for ontology *	signatures for ensuring ontology integrity (Already covered in "Integration of digital signatures") *	Trust Level - an overall indicator  STATUS: RAISED Reference: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webont-comments/2002Apr/0006.html    --     Professor James Hendler				  [email protected] Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies	  301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab.	  301-405-6707 (Fax) AV Williams Building, Univ of Maryland		  College Park, MD 20742 http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler

Received on Friday, 19 April 2002 08:47:07 UTC