Re: superset and subset specification

Quoting Nathan Rixham (2023-07-10 20:14:40)
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 6:07 PM Nathan Rixham <nathan@webr3.org> wrote:
> 
> > ... unless either:
> > a) a superset specification was designed, which essentially says any <uri>
> > which dereference to an RDF response that asserts <uri> a :Agent (where
> > :Agent is a well specified class in a published ontology) w/ note MAY 303
> > to handle range-14, or
> > b) a subset specification was designed, as above but constrained to a
> > single media type json(-ld)
> >
> > My personal opinion would be either to let it just move to solid and kill
> > this group, or take some consensus to scrap the current specification, and
> > produce (a) + (b) above, where (a) is deferred to by solid and anything
> > else implementing webid, and (b) is a subset which allows parties to
> > produce a very specific set of tooling, webid implementations that are only
> > json-ld.
> >
> 
> This could be merged to one specification, which also defined an open ended
> list of sub specifications, as such:
> 
> WebID broadly defines a <uri> which dereferences to an RDF response that
> asserts <uri> a webid:Agent, is a webid. (note about 303)
> 
> WebID also defines an open ended list of sub specifications, where for each
> valid rdf response type, webid-{type} is an implementation which is
> constrained to require only that specific type.
> 
> With that, we'd cover all bases, and webid-turtle, webid-jsonld, and many
> more, would automatically fall out.
> 
> The specification would likely never need to be updated, be quite concise,
> and require only the publication of a simple vocabulary to cover
> webid:Agent, or some such universal term.
> 
> The current webid specification, would be superseded by both WebID, and
> its inferred subspecification WebID-Turtle.

Looks excellent to me.

 - Jonas

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