Re: Moving conneg-by-ap to CR

I am looking at https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/conneg-by-ap/

Following the link to the editor's draft at https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/, 
and also from https://www.w3.org/2017/dxwg/wiki/Main_Page


On 9/25/19 11:52 AM, pedro winstley wrote:
> Lars & Annette
> Please can you provide URLs of the doc you are referencing, and not 
> just section numbers.  We cannot have any ambiguity at this stage, it 
> will waste time
> Many thanks
> Peter
>
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 19:49, Lars G. Svensson <lars.svensson@web.de 
> <mailto:lars.svensson@web.de>> wrote:
>
>     I have the impression that we're not looking at the same document: In
>     the current ED there is no §2.1 since that content has moved to §7...
>
>     I also don't understand where you see two similar QSA approaches.
>
>     And I fully agree that not all web developers agree that query string
>     negotiation is the best way of doing negotiation. We also don't
>     mandate
>     that (just as we don't mandate the use of http negotiation). QSA
>     is one
>     way of doing it. If a web developer wants to implement profile
>     negotiation without query strings, she is free to do that. But if she
>     does it with query strings, we want to keep that interoperable, and
>     that's why we say "this is the way to do it". So we're in full
>     agreement
>     "that there are many ways in which one can use the abstract model to
>     code up a content negotiation strategy and the QSA approach offers one
>     of them." Can you point me (and Nick and Rob) to text passages that
>     claim differently and preferably also propose text that resolves
>     your issue?
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Lars
>
>     Am 25.09.2019 um 20:03 schrieb Annette Greiner:
>     > The issue about whether that section is normative needs to be
>     resolved
>     > for me to support moving to CR. It's particularly troubling to me
>     > since I did rewrite that section to address that, the changes were
>     > accepted, and then they were somehow edited back out by subsequent
>     > work. I realize the editing process can be chaotic with many
>     > contributors, so I'm not looking to blame anyone for this. My
>     goal had
>     > been and remains to clarify that there are many ways in which
>     one can
>     > use the abstract model to code up a content negotiation strategy and
>     > the QSA approach offers one of them. Since that rewrite, the
>     document
>     > now offers two similar QSA-based approaches and a statement in
>     section
>     > 2.1 that conformance to one of them or to header-based conneg is
>     > required for conformance to the spec. That isn't what we agreed
>     to. My
>     > main concern with this is to acknowledge that web developers do not
>     > all agree that query strings are the best way to handle
>     > differentiating requests, and I don't think that we should be in the
>     > position of legislating development styles.
>     > -Annette
>     >
>     > On 9/25/19 10:05 AM, lars.svensson@web.de
>     <mailto:lars.svensson@web.de> wrote:
>     >> Dear all,
>     >>
>     >> Thanks for giving us editors of conneg-by-ap another 24 hours
>     to fix
>     >> open issues with the document. We have addressed the following:
>     >>
>     >> 1. The syntax for Accept-Profile now uses angle brackets around the
>     >> URIs in order to cleanly separate the profile URI from q-values,
>     >> other parameters or other profile URIs [0,1]. This resolves Rob
>     >> Sanderson's first objection. A question has been sent to Rob if
>     he is
>     >> satisfied with the outcome [2] and he has confirmed this [3].
>     >> 2. The three issues that were still in the document have been
>     removed
>     >> since they were either closed already (#1041) or had been resolved
>     >> but not closed (#290) or resolved but without any response from the
>     >> original poster over four weeks (#678). This resolves Rob
>     Sanderson's
>     >> second objection. A question has been sent to Rob if he is
>     satisfied
>     >> with the outcome [2] and he has confirmed this [3].
>     >> 3. The document now contains a definition of "functional
>     profile" in
>     >> the definition section [4] while all other text about functional
>     >> profiles is now in its own section in §7 [5,6]. This resolves
>     #1022 [7].
>     >>
>     >> What we have not been able to address is the question about
>     order of
>     >> precedence for conflicting profile negotiation situations
>     (#505)[8].
>     >> My understanding is that Annette requires that QSA is made
>     >> non-normative while Nick and Rob are not willing to step down
>     from a
>     >> full standard. I have asked Annette if this issue is a blocker for
>     >> her [8].
>     >>
>     >> Regarding wide review, Peter had sent out a request for comments on
>     >> the 2PWD [9]. Following that, we've had responses on the comments
>     >> list and outside Github comments from at least Kam Hay Fung
>     >> [10,11,17], Erik Wilde [12], Herbert van der Sompel [13], Andreas
>     >> Kuckartz [14] and Gregg Kellogg [15, resolved in 16]. Following a
>     >> request from Nick [18], we also had feedback from CKAN developers
>     >> [19,20]. This shows involvement of the outside community. I
>     have also
>     >> added this to the transition request document [21].
>     >>
>     >> With five hours left, there is little left for us editors to do,
>     >> except to ask you to cast your votes again.
>     >>
>     >> The editors of conneg-by-ap
>     >>
>     >> Nick, Rob and Lars
>     >>
>     >> [0]
>     https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/conneg-by-ap/#http-getresourcebyprofile
>     >> [1] https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/conneg-by-ap/#eg-http-get
>     >> [2]
>     >>
>     https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-wg/2019Sep/0914.html
>     >> [3]
>     >>
>     https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-wg/2019Sep/0915.html
>     >> [4] https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/conneg-by-ap/#definitions and
>     >>
>     https://raw.githack.com/w3c/dxwg/larsgsvensson-functional-specification/conneg-by-ap/index.html#definitions
>     >> [5]
>     >>
>     https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/conneg-by-ap/#functional-profiles-definition
>     >> [6] https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/conneg-by-ap/#conformance-profiles
>     >> [7] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1022
>     >> [8]
>     >>
>     https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-wg/2019Sep/att-0913/00-part
>     >> [9]
>     >>
>     https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-comments/2019May/0002.html
>     >> [10] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/785
>     >> [11] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/835
>     >> [12] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/501#issuecomment-522503214
>     >> [13] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/501#issuecomment-522523315
>     >> [14] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/290#issuecomment-466656384
>     >> [15] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/662
>     >> [16]
>     >>
>     https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-comments/2019Apr/0001.html
>     >> [17]
>     >>
>     https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-comments/2018Aug/0002.html
>     >> [18]
>     >>
>     https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-wg/2019Sep/att-0907/00-part
>     >> [19]
>     >>
>     https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-wg/2019Sep/att-0908/00-part
>     >> [20]
>     >>
>     https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-wg/2019Sep/att-0910/00-part
>     >> [21]
>     >>
>     https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/wiki/Conneg:-Draft-Transition-Request-to-CR
>     >>
>     >>
>
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