Re: Collaboration with Social Web Incubator CG (re: alsoKnownAs)

Amy, this is great news. Congratulations on the success of your work to
harmonize this across the two communities.

Best,

=Drummond

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 8:42 AM rhiaro <amy@rhiaro.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The DID WG had an opportunity to collaborate recently with the Social
> Web Incubator Community Group, and I'm happy to report that our joint
> mission has been a success.
>
> This is with respect to the `alsoKnownAs` property, something which has
> been in use by various ActivityPub implementations for some time, but
> was an extension rather than a core part of their stack of RECs. Members
> of the DID WG and implementers from the ActivityPub community worked
> together to refine the definition of `alsoKnownAs` that appears in the
> DID Core spec to make sure it is suitable for both communities, and at
> the weekend the Social Web Incubator CG passed a formal resolution to
> add `alsoKnownAs` into the ActivityStreams 2.0 namespace (and
> corresponding JSON-LD context) with a link out to the human-readable
> definition in DID Core [1].
>
> It's always nice when groups with similar goals and interests can work
> together to share a vocabulary and reduce redundancy in the space.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> Amy
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams
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