Review of SPARQL Protocol

From Nick Lamb of Garlik, who implemented most of our HTTP Server.

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The removal of WSDl definitions throughout has improved clarity.

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...However 3.1.9 still refers to MalformedQuery, which no longer appears
in this way elsewhere in the document. The same for QueryRequestRefused
in 3.1.10

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Some internal links such as:

http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/protocol-1.1/Overview.xml#SparqlProtocol

... don't function in the document.

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Some guidance for how a SPARQL server can report diagnostics in 2XX
responses to UPDATE operations would be valuable. Right now the standard
ducks the issue. If it's too late to fix in this document, a future WG
might be tasked with addressing it?

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Section 4.1 seems a bit thin. Perhaps someone from the security
community could be invited to help write more here? Existing best
practice documents for query languages such as SQL might offer some
insight too.

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A.2 lists IETF RFC 2781 (UTF-16) but nowhere else in the standard is
this encoding mentioned or implicitly used. Yet in contrast UTF-8 is
used throughout, but RFC 3629 (the current Internet standard for UTF-8)
is not referenced in A.2


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Received on Monday, 21 November 2011 10:38:14 UTC