Re: Partial draft: CommentResponse:RC-4

On 20/09/11 02:42, Gregory Williams wrote:
>
> On Sep 13, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Andy Seaborne wrote:
>
>> Partial draft:
>> http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/CommentResponse:RC-4
>
> This draft says:
>
> """ Security is one reason for making this distinction. A complete
> and compliant implementation of SPARQL Query offered at an endpoint
> will reject updates (whether this escape change is made or not)
> because they do not parse as queries. """
>
> I'm concerned about this text and the implication that a "complete
> and compliant" implementation couldn't accept (as an extension of the
> spec) an update request through the same mechanism as a query request
> (through an API or the protocol). Is preventing such an extension the
> intention of the spec?

It's not the intention: the draft response says

"A complete and compliant implementation of SPARQL Query"

to try to emphasis the _query service_ rejecting queries that look like 
updates.  It's only talking about an unextended service.

It does not say anything about a combined service, offering query and 
update facilities (with different URL query parameter presumably) which 
is what I think you are referring to.  Whether you want to call that two 
services, at a common endpoint or extended service is as much one of 
style because we don't define such a thing.

Is there some rewording that can be done?

	Andy

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