draft plan for moving forward on 200/303

(Check out the new http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/57 ...)

Here is a DRAFT of a proposal for a plan (etc.) for AWWSW work related
to TAG ISSUE-57, based on recent discussions.

We will prepare two products.

1. A background report giving the AWWSW TF's best description of the
   issue, comprising
   - brief history
   - terminology and general analysis
   - issues reported (deployment difficulty and performance problems
       for httpRange-14 rule, mainly)
   - enumeration and analysis of all plausible solutions known to the TF
       ("plan B" solutions = {repeal of the rule + some way to refer
        to an IR at a URI} being one set, "plan A" alternatives to 303
    such as .well-known being another set)
   - references

2. An illustration 'ontology' that would permit expression of both
   opt-in and opt-out to the httpRange-14 rule.  The deliverable would
   be two files, one of RDF and one of explanation and documentation.
   This would be presented as *for discussion* - not ready for prime time.

The purposes of the products would be to
* supply a basis for further community discussion of what to do
* help to recruit people to actively engage and to help out
* explain to the TAG what the problem is
* help the TAG decide how to further prosecute the issue (JAR suggested
  rec track through TAG; Larry Masinter has suggested dropping it and
  let the affected people run with it; that decision needs to be
  informed)

At the end, we present them to the community (including the TAG), then
get back to what we were doing before.

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This is not the whole AWWSW story; we also wanted to deal with
the rest of HTTP somehow - esp. 301/302/307, and maybe PUT.

Jonathan

Received on Thursday, 3 March 2011 22:55:20 UTC