R: Wiki page Re: Proposal to develop best practice document to focus work of W3C FSW Community Group

Hi all,

I'm jumping late in the thread trying to better understand the goal of the proposal. "best practices" seem valid to me when dealing with a limited set of reference specs in order to clarify some "most common usages" of them in specific contexts. As some already pointed out we are plenty of more or less updated lists of existing initiatives/standards doing similar things, although each focusing on a slightly different aspect.

Perhaps in order to make the fsw cg more efficient we could

1)      start identifying some "areas of interest" within the whole fsw topic. E.g. privacy (& distribution), search, mobile, scalability etc.

2)      open anyone/any project to contribute to the areas of his interest and describe how it addressed it and what should be improved

3)      by merging and discussing commonly on each topic we'd likely identify concrete opportunities to make current specs/standards evolve, which imo would be a very nice result of the group.

Over the past years I led the "Social Network Web" work item within the Open Mobile Alliance forum, which substantially is a combination of the opensocial specs (for device-server communication) and ostatus suite (for federation), with the ability to also reuse phone numbers as user identity. The mapping of opensocial & ostatus communication flows was one of the most challenging part in order to achieve a decent end-to-end spec and we learnt through prototyping the various issues and possible improvements of the core specs we rely on.
To cite some examples: pubsubhubbub & salmon may be evaluated to merge, pubsubhubbub may support additional communication channels, etc
Having all the most relevant actors of such specs in this group could be useful to share experiences, issues and proposals for solutions to evolve such specs and eventually converge into a reduced subset of specs that gain consensus. I do believe that the current fragmentation of initiatives slows down the deployment of large federations...

Is this somehow what was in mind with "best practices" or am I off-topic? In that case does my (additional9 proposal make sense to anyone?

Cheers
walter

Da: Melvin Carvalho [mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com]
Inviato: mercoledì 22 maggio 2013 9.56
A: Andreas Kuckartz
Cc: Dileepa Jayakody; Daniel Harris; public-fedsocweb@w3.org
Oggetto: Re: Wiki page Re: Proposal to develop best practice document to focus work of W3C FSW Community Group



On 22 May 2013 08:37, Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de<mailto:A.Kuckartz@ping.de>> wrote:
Dileepa Jayakody:
> +1, I think we should accumulate related topics,projects and
> protocols into one place/document, and regulation can be done in the
> next step.
> Discussions will be highly useful to select best projects, practises
> IMO.
A document which is an accumulation of material would not be a Best
Practices document. To mention specific projects would require the
evaluation of all known projects according to objective criteria. That
is a lot of work. I do not see enough activity in this Community Group
to do that. The previous FSW working group produced a document
containing a list of projects:
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/XGR-socialweb-20101206/#Decentralized

I do not think that this list was very helpful. Important projects were
missing and about half of the listed projects are now dead.

My suggestion is to concentrate on compiling Best Practices, not on Best
Products.

+1


Cheers,
Andreas

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