RE: json-ld progress, was Re: agenda 9 Oct telecon

On Wednesday, October 09, 2013 4:30 AM, Sandro Hawke wrote:
> On 10/08/2013 11:45 AM, Gregg Kellogg wrote:
> > We'll want to spend a little time on understanding the implications
> of Concepts and Semantics not being in CR for JSON-LD to publish with a
> normative reference to CR. JSON-LD is just about ready for a transition
> to PR.
> 
> It's probably not worth trying to do.   JSON-LD should probably wait
> until Concepts and Semantics are at least at CR.   Personally, I'd
> prefer all RDF 1.1 documents go to PR together in December, so there's
> one simple "RDF 1.1" thing for the AC and then in January for the
> world, and so the references can all be clean and in-sync.

Another two months of, well, just waiting? The JSON-LD syntax has been
stable for (more than) six months now. A lot of people are waiting for this
to become a REC...


> > The CR version of JSON-LD has a normative reference to LC RDF11-
> CONCEPTS of 23 July 2013, and informative references to 2004 RDF-
> SCHEMA, 23 July RDF11-MT and 19 Feb TURTLE.
> >
> > The CR version of JSON-LD-API has a normative reference to 2004 RDF-
> MT and an informative reference to the TURTLE CR of 19 Feb 2013.
> 
> Is there consensus within the JSON-LD task force how to handle the
> Promises  dependency?  I haven't heard which of the plans we're going
> with, and as I recall each had some risks and tasks associated with
> it.     Some of them probably need RDF WG consensus as well.

Google has already implemented Promised [1], Mozilla is actively working on
it [2]. So relatively soon there should be something we can use (and
hopefully reference). Weren't you trying to find out what the consequences
of the various options we have would be from a W3C process perspective? Any
news on that?


Cheers,
Markus


[1] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=295420
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885333


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