Re: [egov] Semantic Web Collaborations

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Anders,

I am very likely to change my status in the E-Gov TC shortly, to a 
prospective member, rather than observer, pending the completion of a 
few more preliminary tasks, so the publication of your draft is 
probable to coincide with that, so I will look for it. Security is 
another of the pieces to the overall puzzle of a workable semantic 
web that can and certainly should be demonstrated in the kinds of 
collaborations I discussed. This is especially important in Emergency 
Management.

Thanks for the heads up, and I look forward to seeing your draft.

Ciao,
Rex

At 5:46 PM +0100 2/7/04, Anders Rundgren wrote:
>Hi Rex & Co,
>
>May I add something to the list?  In order to create useful services
>on the web, the different actors should be properly authenticated.
>
>In spite of a decade of talks about digital signatures and the existence
>of digital signature laws in most countries, no party have so far taken
>on the standardization of user-based signature-operations in a web
>context.
>
>I have on a voluntary basis initiated such an effort and have recently
>signed-up a leading cryptographer (having contributed to numerous
>standards), as a co-editor.
>
>http://w1.181.telia.com/~u18116613/OnLineWebSignatureStandardRequest.pdf
>
>A draft is to be published within a couple of months.
>
>Anders Rundgren
>Consulant, PKI & e-Business


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