Re: Regrets

I guess I never did it explicitly, but I meant to vote +1 for publishing 
the prof ontology.

Sorry, but for conneg I have to vote -1 until a couple of issues have 
been addressed.

We have two outstanding substantial issues with the conneg doc that I 
would like to see at least marked prominently. One is the presentation 
of the QSA stuff as normative. It should not be normative. Alejandra 
pointed that out quite a while ago, I believe, and I agree. The conneg 
doc is about a standard for header-based content negotiation, and I 
think it is beyond our charter to give normative requirements for a 
QSA-based approach to conneg. I thought this was agreed by the editors, 
but the document still treats that section as normative.

In addition, I opened a second issue about the use of QSA to specify a 
second way of conducting content negotiation rather than as an example 
of how to enable discovery and selection of profiles by using query 
strings (#544).  I strongly supported a requirement for the latter, 
because it is necessary to enable human users to understand what is 
available and recognize when the data available are limited to a 
specific profile. Enabling multiple ways to handle content negotiation 
doesn't seem like a win to me, as using query strings is not a standard 
way of doing content negotiation otherwise, so that is a departure from 
current conneg standards. It may even be harmful, as it creates 
ambiguity as to whether content negotiation is available, since one 
would have to check both methods to determine that it was not available. 
Rather than addressing the issue of how negotiation obscures the choice 
of profile made behind the scenes for human users, it re-creates that 
problem in a new form. Finally, this additional approach is introducing 
new problems because it requires determination of how to handle 
situations where both types of negotiation are attempted.

-Annette


On 11/13/18 3:01 PM, pedro winstley wrote:
> Hi Annette
> Did you vote on the proposals for publication?
>
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2018, 21:00 Annette Greiner <amgreiner@lbl.gov 
> <mailto:amgreiner@lbl.gov> wrote:
>
>     Sorry, I won't be able to make today's meeting.
>     -Annette
>
>     Sent from my iPhone
>

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