In the past the group has discussed OWL and lack of identifiers (e.g. an early
part of it is at
http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-04/msg00012.html ) (01)
Recently I ran into a somewhat related issue of identifiers in the SOA/ Web
services security area and the concept of "active entity", discussed for things
like ad-hoc mobile environment. (02)
SOA and web services have the trust issue of Identification and
Authentication, i.e. Verifying the identity of a user, process, device etc. as
a prerequisite for access to resources in an information system. I've just
seen some general things discussed about the semantic issues and resolutions
for this, but SOA seems to happily humming along as if the issue of identify
will be handled OK by the proper approach to naming. Sort of like a general
extension of ISO 3166-2, "Codes for the representation of names of countries
and their subdivisions" to service entities, device entities etc. So you just
have a single hierarchy with the nodes named.... (03)
But it is easy to imagine problems as trust relationships span multiple
organizations which have different names for "active entities" and their parts
and assemblies into which they are composed. (04)
I'm wondering if anyone else has thought about the issue of semantics involved
in Identity Management and what the limits of a systematic naming approach
might be?
Is anybody addressing the semantic issues so that service and person identities
don't become a problem? (05)
Gary Berg-Cross, Ph.D.
Semantic Technology
SOCoP Executive Secretary
http://semanticommunity.wik.is/Spatial_Ontology_Community_of_Practice
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