Re: Moving conneg-by-ap to CR

I'm referring to what are currently termed the "QSA Functional Profile" 
and the "QSA Alternate Keywords Functional Profile". And I see that the 
conformance info has been moved to section 7.2.

On 9/25/19 11:48 AM, Lars G. Svensson wrote:
> I have the impression that we're not looking at the same document: In
> the current ED there is no §2.1 since that content has moved to §7...
>
> I also don't understand where you see two similar QSA approaches.
>
> And I fully agree that not all web developers agree that query string
> negotiation is the best way of doing negotiation. We also don't mandate
> that (just as we don't mandate the use of http negotiation). QSA is one
> way of doing it. If a web developer wants to implement profile
> negotiation without query strings, she is free to do that. But if she
> does it with query strings, we want to keep that interoperable, and
> that's why we say "this is the way to do it". So we're in full agreement
> "that there are many ways in which one can use the abstract model to
> code up a content negotiation strategy and the QSA approach offers one
> of them." Can you point me (and Nick and Rob) to text passages that
> claim differently and preferably also propose text that resolves your 
> issue?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lars
>
> Am 25.09.2019 um 20:03 schrieb Annette Greiner:
>> The issue about whether that section is normative needs to be resolved
>> for me to support moving to CR. It's particularly troubling to me
>> since I did rewrite that section to address that, the changes were
>> accepted, and then they were somehow edited back out by subsequent
>> work. I realize the editing process can be chaotic with many
>> contributors, so I'm not looking to blame anyone for this. My goal had
>> been and remains to clarify that there are many ways in which one can
>> use the abstract model to code up a content negotiation strategy and
>> the QSA approach offers one of them. Since that rewrite, the document
>> now offers two similar QSA-based approaches and a statement in section
>> 2.1 that conformance to one of them or to header-based conneg is
>> required for conformance to the spec. That isn't what we agreed to. My
>> main concern with this is to acknowledge that web developers do not
>> all agree that query strings are the best way to handle
>> differentiating requests, and I don't think that we should be in the
>> position of legislating development styles.
>> -Annette
>>
>> On 9/25/19 10:05 AM, lars.svensson@web.de wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Thanks for giving us editors of conneg-by-ap another 24 hours to fix
>>> open issues with the document. We have addressed the following:
>>>
>>> 1. The syntax for Accept-Profile now uses angle brackets around the
>>> URIs in order to cleanly separate the profile URI from q-values,
>>> other parameters or other profile URIs [0,1]. This resolves Rob
>>> Sanderson's first objection. A question has been sent to Rob if he is
>>> satisfied with the outcome [2] and he has confirmed this [3].
>>> 2. The three issues that were still in the document have been removed
>>> since they were either closed already (#1041) or had been resolved
>>> but not closed (#290) or resolved but without any response from the
>>> original poster over four weeks (#678). This resolves Rob Sanderson's
>>> second objection. A question has been sent to Rob if he is satisfied
>>> with the outcome [2] and he has confirmed this [3].
>>> 3. The document now contains a definition of "functional profile" in
>>> the definition section [4] while all other text about functional
>>> profiles is now in its own section in §7 [5,6]. This resolves #1022 
>>> [7].
>>>
>>> What we have not been able to address is the question about order of
>>> precedence for conflicting profile negotiation situations (#505)[8].
>>> My understanding is that Annette requires that QSA is made
>>> non-normative while Nick and Rob are not willing to step down from a
>>> full standard. I have asked Annette if this issue is a blocker for
>>> her [8].
>>>
>>> Regarding wide review, Peter had sent out a request for comments on
>>> the 2PWD [9]. Following that, we've had responses on the comments
>>> list and outside Github comments from at least Kam Hay Fung
>>> [10,11,17], Erik Wilde [12], Herbert van der Sompel [13], Andreas
>>> Kuckartz [14] and Gregg Kellogg [15, resolved in 16]. Following a
>>> request from Nick [18], we also had feedback from CKAN developers
>>> [19,20]. This shows involvement of the outside community. I have also
>>> added this to the transition request document [21].
>>>
>>> With five hours left, there is little left for us editors to do,
>>> except to ask you to cast your votes again.
>>>
>>> The editors of conneg-by-ap
>>>
>>> Nick, Rob and Lars
>>>
>>> [0] https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/conneg-by-ap/#http-getresourcebyprofile
>>> [1] https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/conneg-by-ap/#eg-http-get
>>> [2]
>>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-wg/2019Sep/0914.html
>>> [3]
>>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-wg/2019Sep/0915.html
>>> [4] https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/conneg-by-ap/#definitions and
>>> https://raw.githack.com/w3c/dxwg/larsgsvensson-functional-specification/conneg-by-ap/index.html#definitions 
>>>
>>> [5]
>>> https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/conneg-by-ap/#functional-profiles-definition
>>> [6] https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/conneg-by-ap/#conformance-profiles
>>> [7] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1022
>>> [8]
>>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-wg/2019Sep/att-0913/00-part 
>>>
>>> [9]
>>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-comments/2019May/0002.html 
>>>
>>> [10] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/785
>>> [11] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/835
>>> [12] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/501#issuecomment-522503214
>>> [13] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/501#issuecomment-522523315
>>> [14] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/290#issuecomment-466656384
>>> [15] https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/662
>>> [16]
>>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-comments/2019Apr/0001.html 
>>>
>>> [17]
>>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-comments/2018Aug/0002.html 
>>>
>>> [18]
>>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-wg/2019Sep/att-0907/00-part 
>>>
>>> [19]
>>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-wg/2019Sep/att-0908/00-part 
>>>
>>> [20]
>>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-dxwg-wg/2019Sep/att-0910/00-part 
>>>
>>> [21]
>>> https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/wiki/Conneg:-Draft-Transition-Request-to-CR
>>>
>>>
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