Use Concise Bounded Description
authorHenry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:00:19 +0100
changeset 348 05ecde3936bf
parent 347 63b2a6ba394f
child 349 088798a2deca
Use Concise Bounded Description
spec/identity-respec.html
--- a/spec/identity-respec.html	Wed Feb 13 12:38:54 2013 +0100
+++ b/spec/identity-respec.html	Wed Feb 13 14:00:19 2013 +0100
@@ -435,9 +435,9 @@
 <p>The relation between the <tref>WebID</tref> URI and the <tref>WebID Profile</tref> document is illustrated below.</p>
 <img id='webid-diagram' alt="WebID overview" src="img/WebID-overview.png"/>
 
-<p>The WebID URI - <em>"http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card</a><strong>#i</strong>"</em> - is an Identifier that denotes (refers to) a person or more generally an agent: in the illustration the referent is Tim Bernsers Lee, the real physical person who has a history, who invented the World Wide Web, who acts in the world, ...  
+<p>The WebID URI - <em>"http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card<strong>#i</strong>"</em> - is an Identifier that denotes (refers to) a person or more generally an agent: in the illustration the referent is Tim Bernsers Lee, the real physical person who has a history, who invented the World Wide Web, who acts in the world, ...  
 <p>The WebID Profile URI - <em>"<a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card">http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card</a>"</em> - denotes the document describing the person (or more generally any agent) who is the referent of the WebID URI. 
-The WebID Profile gives the <em>sense</em> of the WebID: it determines the referent of the WebID by relating the WebID URI via a number of relations in such a way that these relations form a definite description of the referent of the WebID, in other words a description the uniquely identifies among all things in the world, the referent of that WebID.<br/>
+The WebID Profile gives the <em>sense</em> of the WebID: its RDF Graph contains a <a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/CBD/">Concise Bounded Description</a> of the WebID such that this subgraph forms a definite description of the referent of the WebID, that is, a description that distinguishes the referent of that WebID from all other things in the world.<br/>
 The document can for example contain relations to another document depicting the WebID referent. 
 Or it can related the WebID to Principals used by different authentication protocols. 
 ( More information on WebID and other authentication protocols can be found on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/Identity_Interoperability">WebID Identity Interoperability</a> page ).