[mdx] what to trust

[Leif Johansson]

On Friday 08 May 2009 11:49:20 am Josh Howlett wrote:
> > So what you say is that the only way to encode trust in
> > metadata *internal* to a metadata aggregator is signatures.
> > That might be true... I need to think about that.
>
> Hopefully finishing my punctuated series of replies - and actually
> answering your question - I'm inclined to think that signatures are the
> only practical approach in the short term, but longer term it may be
> necessary to establish more dynamic ways of establishing trust. That's
> why I think GSS is interesting. But this is definitely out-of-scope for
> MDX, so I'll shut up now.
>

Actually I wasn't talking about establishing trust but how to represent
how the aggregator established trust in the entity in the entity metadata.

The attribute extension sounds like a perfectly valid option as it also
provides a way to transport other qualifiers (eg tags) across aggregators.

	Cheers Leif