Re: LDP would benefit from being RESTful

Hi all,

On 16 Nov 2012, at 19:57, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:

> However, as I show in my ESWC LAPIS2012 presentation, see
> http://folk.uio.no/kjekje/2012/lapis2012.xhtml
> RDF can be made to be a very powerful hypermedia type by fairly trivial 
> means. In fact, it can easily meet all but one of Amundsen's criteria (I 
> just realised that LE can be met using data URIs).
> 
> I've been talking with people F2F on ISWC about this, and I hope I have 
> convinced some that this is the direction one should be going. And I really 
> don't think this is out of the scope of the charter, to the contrary, if 
> this is done right, it is what the charter really means. :-)

As one of the people who discussed this with Kjetil,
I think it *really* makes sense to try so see things from this perspective.
Just like Mark said, I believe we’re too much in the process
of making a protocol at HTTP level,
while LDP is the chance to do something different.

So the crucial question is:
is it still possible to go in a fundamentally different discussion
than the one we’re going in right now (even if it’s just trying)?

At the moment, this seems hard, since a lot of the spec is already there.
But this alone should not be a justification to continue the way we’re going.

Best,

Ruben

Received on Sunday, 18 November 2012 15:05:49 UTC