Re: the state of ldp-patch, and a procedural proposal

For the portfolio of implementations I ride herd over, blank nodes are 
very rarely used because we expect over time to need to index much of it 
and that's just easier if there's a URI (even a hash URI, which is how 
most of our implementations get rid of their blank nodes).  It's usually 
easy enough to generate a hash URI algorithmically, hence consistently, 
for the kinds of data we're exposing today.
There are a few places that have RDF lists etc, so they're still lurking, 
but we're careful to allow use of those constructs only in parts of the 
model that we don't expect to query over later with any regularity.  And 
more central to this discussion is that blank nodes are typically used in 
what LDP calls "server managed properties", so there is essentially zero 
chance of them processing PATCH requests over them.

Best Regards, John

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