[rdfweb-dev] PPD

[Julian Bond]

Michael Brian Orr <mike at michael-brian-orr.net> wrote:
>My question - I'd characterize it as such, rather than
>an argument, 'cause I really am just beginning to try to
>grok this stuff - is not whether it's wise to do a
>stopgap. Actually I think the perfect solution (in terms
>of authenticity) is important, but some ways off, and I
>think your position of doing something "sub-optimal
>but...in the right direction" is appropriate, in fact
>highly valuable.

As a private individual, I can sign my foaf file and use Wot entries.

As webmaster of Ecademy and generating foaf on behalf of others, I don't 
see how I can do this. I guess I could create a PGP key for 
webmaster at ecademy.com and then auto-generate signatures on the fly. Not 
sure this actually helps much.

But I can state that some entity that did use the main mbox at some time 
when they got their password, did then fill in some data which I'm 
repeating. And if you don't believe me, then <admin:errorReportsTo gives 
you a contact point and you can dig into DNS to try and find out whether 
the source of the data (ecademy.com) has consistent records. So there is 
a fairly public audit trail.

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