Re: switch to 1.2 for TR/rdf-concepts and TR/rdf-semantics

On 13/04/2026 16:23, James Anderson wrote:
> good afternoon;
>
>> On 13. Apr 2026, at 14:45, Pierre-Antoine Champin <pierre-antoine@w3.org> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> now that RDF 1.2 Concepts and RDF 1.2 Semantics are published as Candidate Recommendation, our webmaster suggested to me that we may want to have the "version-less" URLs [1,2] point to the 1.2 version (Candidate Rec) rather than the 1.1 version (Rec).
> why would one want to create a situation where the document content version is inconsistent?

I realize I forgot to add the links "[1]" and "[2]" in the body of my 
email, which may have created confusion. Let me clarify:

Consider the URLs we have for RDF Concepts:

* https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts → serves the latest "RDF 1.1 
Concepts" (Recommendation)
* https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf12-concepts → serves the latest "RDF 1.2 
Concepts" (currently Candidate Recommendation)
* https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts → serves the latest recommendation, 
i.e. "RDF 1.1 Concepts"

Different working groups have different policies for the "version-less" 
URL (the latter).
* Some groups have it serve the latest version of the document, even if 
it is a Working Draft
* Some groups have it serve the latest "stable" version of the document 
(that's what we chose)

The suggestion is to consider that a Candidate Recommendation is 
"stable" enough to update the version-less URL. This is not 
inconsistent, just a slight variation in what we mean by "stable".

>
>> I think that is a good idea, and suggest we put this on the agenda of our next meeting.
>>
>>    pa
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Received on Tuesday, 14 April 2026 08:56:30 UTC