-- Larry Masinter -- a dit, - le 25/10/2004 18:28:
This new title will add even more confusion with the PKIX
working group.
I'm sorry about the confusion over the title. We had put off
working through the document, so there was some rush to get
a new version out.
I'm a little uneasy about "Data Validation and Certification"
because in many of the use cases, the thing being validated
or certified isn't so much "data" as it is an "event" -- an
oath was administered, an agreement was understood, etc.
On one hand, you are right, in many cases what will be certified will
not be an document, but as you say a fact or an event, but on the other
hand, we are dealing with information systems and "facts" or "events"
will have to be represented and it will be by some "data" (a combination
of what, when, by whom ...)
As far as my understanding of the english language is correct, "data",
as being the more general word(even vague, here it is a clear advantage
over a more "accurate" or "connotated" term) is definitely the more
appropriate.
We can probably have a shortexplanation in the foreword of the document,
stating that in this document the word "data" has to be understood as
the "electronic representation" of a "fact" (or "event") .
One specific case of such a "fact" is the submission or validation of a
document at a given date and time (optionnaly by a specific user), one
specific subcase being the validation of a X.509 certificate.
Another case being for example the receipt notification by a Long Term
Archive service,
or the the "approval" of a document at a given time by at least 67% of
the members of a given list of users.
Regards,
-- PAP
If we keep these use cases, can you think of other alternatives?
Larry
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