Fwd: Announcement: Fedora API Specification Candidate Recommendation

Hello All,
In case you have not seen, a specification is coming out of the Fedora
digital repositories community (http://fedorarepository.org/) which extends
from the LDP 1.0 Recommendation.

There may be synergistic value in potentially bringing some of the elements
in the Fedora specification into the LDP effort, such as:
* Resource Versioning (Memento)
* Resource Authorization (Web Access Controls)
* Notifications (Activity Streams)
* Extended Binary Resource Operations
** Fixity (HTTP headers)
** Referenced Content via message/external-body Content-Type

Please indicate if you have an interest in incorporating any of the above
into the LDP-Next effort or creating a more explicit connection between
these standards.

Regards,
Andrew Woods

****** Announcement below ******

The Candidate Recommendation of the Fedora API Specification is now
available for public review.

https://fedora.info/spec

As described in the charter [1], this specification is designed to:
1. Define the characteristics and expectations of how clients interact with
Fedora implementations
2. Define such interactions such that an implementation’s conformance is
testable
3. Enable interoperability by striving to minimize the need for
modifications to client applications in order to work with different
implementations of the Fedora API specification

The core HTTP and notification services defined in this specification are
listed below, along with the associated standards from which they are
derived:
* Resource Management (Linked Data Platform)
* Resource Versioning (Memento)
* Resource Authorization (Web Access Controls)
* Notifications (Activity Streams)
* Extended Binary Resource Operations
** Fixity (HTTP headers)
** Referenced Content via message/external-body Content-Type

This announcement for public comment on the Candidate Recommendation marks
the beginning of a projected two-month period within which time we are
targeting the release of the full Recommendation. Minimum requirements for
transitioning to releasing the Recommendation include:
* Specification compliance test suite
* Two or more implementations of the specification
* No unresolved, outstanding critical issues, as defined by the
specification editors [2]

Please contact the Fedora Community [3] or Fedora Specification Editors [4]
with any general comments. Any comments on details of the specification,
itself, should be posted as GitHub issues [5].

Regards,
Andrew Woods (on behalf of the Specification Editors and the Fedora
Leadership)

[1] https://github.com/fcrepo/fcrepo-specification/wiki/Fedora-
API-Specification-Charter#fedora-api-specification-charter
[2] https://github.com/fcrepo/fcrepo-specification/wiki/Fedora-
API-Specification-Charter#editorial-team-membership-and-selection
[3] fedora-community@googlegroups.com
[4] fedora-specification-editors@googlegroups.com
[5] https://github.com/fcrepo/fcrepo-specification/issues