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> AFAICT, the only concrete detail proposed that is relatively unambiguous
> and has technical implications is the idea that a web publication should be
> defined by an self-identified manifest that can be external to the HTML
> files that compose the publication and whose URL identifies the publication
> as a whole. But I’m not sure we have consensus even on that detail.
That's exactly what I'd like to discuss, and I agree with that statement.
I think that so far:
- "a web publication should be defined by a self-identified manifest",
pretty much everyone agrees about that
- "that can be external to the HTML files", most of the list seems to
agree with that, but I've seen a few voices opposed to this idea
- "whose URL identifies the publication as a whole", that's where we
have a pretty massive disagreement as I believe that the URL of the
manifest is a perfect fit to identify the publication as a whole, but
others (Dave, Garth for example) want a URL that returns HTML instead (not
sure why an identifier MUST return HTML, but anyway...)
IMO, this type of bullet point list is more helpful to get a vision of what
we're trying to achieve than the kind of details about definitions being
discussed in this thread (I know that Romain has made that point before,
and I agree with him).