Re: [Monotone-devel] Certificates on certificates?

[Hendrik Boom]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 09:50:54PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:57:53 +0100, Tom Koelman 
> <address@hidden> said:
> 
> tkoelman> an idea that I just got is this: wouldn't it be nice to be
> tkoelman> able to attach certificates to certificates?
> 
> My brain just went into an endless loop thinking about it.  Gotta go
> for repairs :-).
> 
> Seriously, it kind of sounds like a good idea, but I wonder how far we
> should go with that, as it seems it could be generalised to madness,
> and I'm not sure we should do that.

W3 (the people that do the web standards) went in this direction
with RDF, their Resource Description Framework.  I don't *think*
it's madness (except that it uses XML syntax), but I'm not entirely
sure.

-- hendrik