Re: Web Identity and Discovery - WebID 1.0

On 2/6/13 1:18 PM, Henry Story wrote:
> On 6 Feb 2013, at 19:10, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
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>> On 2/6/13 1:05 PM, Henry Story wrote:
>>> On 6 Feb 2013, at 19:00, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
>>>>> In the end it's just a note, with no impact on the definition itself, since I've removed the part about verifiers.
>>>> That's an inaccurate assumption. If that were true, I wouldn't be writing this mail :-)
>>> The text currently is this:
>>>
>>> [[
>>> Hash URIs are encouraged when choosing a WebID since 303 redirects impact performance for clients. All examples in the spec will use such hash URIs.
>>> ]]
>>>
>>> What is wrong with it?
>>>
>>> Henry
>> It is totally unnecessary
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>> Just make examples and demo using hash URIs. Don't open up a can of worms and unnecessary inertia by placing implementation optimization in a specification.
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>> I would like to assume that the voting produced clarity about this thorny issue. Can we not accept the findings from the vote?
> The voting was on the definition of a WebID. The WebID definition is in there as you wish,
> and as Andrei pointed out this does not affect the definition.

It has nothing to do with the definition, so it doesn't need to be there.
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> The vote was not about wishing away reality though. And there are a number of realities.
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> 1. 303s require an extra connection (and have caching issues).
> 2. in the security section we will also be mentioning https uris, as improving security. Is that also going to be problematic?
>
> So for the moment I say we leave it as is. But we can also get a straw poll vote to see what the general mood is on it.

We go for a straw poll, to save everyone's time here.


Kingsley
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Received on Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:21:18 UTC