- From: Janina Sajka, Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:16:48 -0400
- To: W3C WAI Accessible Platform Architectures <public-apa@w3.org>
- Cc: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
Colleagues: I'm forwarding the following to get into our APA discussion archives. We'll take this up on our call Wednesday and following. Janina Sandro Hawke writes: > I'm writing on behalf of the Social Web WG. Some of our specs are now > stable, and if we would value a review from your group at your earliest > convenience. While our primary use cases are often framed in terms of > social media and blogging, the technologies may be broadly applicable. > > So far we have three specs in or near CR: > > * *Webmention* lets you tell a website you're linking to it. This > supports ad hoc federation of sites > > https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/ > > * *Activity Streams* (2.0) is a standard (and extensible) way to > share a stream of what people do online (eg, "liking", posting a > photo, etc) > > https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/ > https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/ > > * *Micropub* provides a standard Web API to create and control posts > on your own website > > https://www.w3.org/TR/micropub/ > > > Additionally: > > * *Social Web Protocols*: provides an overview, including an > explanation for how the parts fit (and sometimes do not fit) > together. This document does not currently have any normative content. > > https://www.w3.org/TR/social-web-protocols/ > > > There are other documents not yet ready for horizontal review. You'll see > them linked from Social Web Protocols, and we'll send another email when > they're in or near CR. > > Note that the group is producing multiple stacks which are not entirely > compatible, reflecting the fragmentation in this space. Basically, we > decided having multiple competing specs, while not an ideal situation, would > still be a step forward. > > If you think your group will be doing a review, please reply-all and let us > know your timeframe. We'd very much appreciate the actual review comments > being raised as issues on the repo for each particular spec (linked in the > title section), and then a high-level email or summary issue stating when > the review is complete. > > Please feel free to share this call-for-review with anyone likely to be > interested. > > Thank you! > > -- Sandro Hawke, Staff Contact, W3C Social Web Working Group -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
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