Re: "Basic profile" terminology ?

hello all.

On 2012-07-07 18:34 , "Henry Story" <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:
>In short it is best to define the Protocol at a semantic level: you have
>collections that can be posted into, that can be linked, that take
>requests of documents about certain types of things... You can then
>reason about those logically. Then one has a few well known syntaxes (
>Turtle perhaps ) and allow content negotiation to take care of the rest.

not quite sure i am completely following what you mean here. every
protocol is defined on some semantic level, whatever the designers of that
protocol deem relevant and useful for the purpose of that protocol. and
then you map the semantics to a syntax, and usually having one syntax is
much better than having more than one syntax. deciding on a syntax usually
means to look at the widest possible set of potential consumers and the
support they have for dealing with particular syntax choices, and then you
decide based on that.

cheers,

dret.

Received on Monday, 9 July 2012 06:47:51 UTC