Re: A Quick Note on WebID history - Re: All the Agents Challenge (ATAC) at ISWC 2021

On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 at 18:27, Ted Thibodeau Jr <tthibodeau@openlinksw.com>
wrote:

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> On Jul 26, 2021, at 02:34 AM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Ah, I see the issue here
>
> The current WebID spec is in fact tightly coupled to Turtle (and http) via
> "MUST"
>
> https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/identity/
>
>
> Those who fail to read the "Status of This Document" are
> doomed to pain and agony all the days of their implementation.
>
> To wit:
>
> This document is produced from work by the W3C WebID Community Group
> <http://www.w3.org/community/webid/>. This is an internal draft document
> and may not even end up being officially published. It may also be updated,
> replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate
> to cite this document as other than work in progress. The source code for
> this document is available at the following URI:
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/WebID
>
> This document was published by the WebID CG
> <http://www.w3.org/community/webid/> as an Editor's Draft. If you wish to
> make comments regarding this document, please send them to
> public-webid@w3.org (subscribe
> <public-webid-request@w3.org?subject=subscribe>, archives
> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webid/>). All comments are
> welcome.
>
> Publication as an Editor's Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership.
> This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other
> documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other
> than work in progress.
>
> In other words: This is not a spec, current or otherwise.
>
> It is very much an Editor's Draft, coming from the discussions
> of what was then an Incubator Group, and transformed into a
> Community Group, but really reflecting the opinions of the
> Chair who was doing double-duty as Editor, much more than of
> the group as a whole.
>
> It does not come close to reflecting consensus of that old XG
> (of which I was a member), never mind transition to a Candidate
> Recommendation, and further progress down the REC-track was
> likewise years away, as there was never a WebID Working Group.
>
> In my opinion, it should never have received the Respec skin
> it has, which makes it *look* like something it isn't, and
> at a minimum, W3C should find a way to put the watermarks
> now in common use on draft specs in the github.io space onto
> all the old draft specs that will otherwise continue to draw
> people into thinking that output of one person's keyboard
> have the same weight as the work product of several if not
> dozens of people intellectual and technical efforts.
>

Good points.  I guess it was last updated over 7 years ago and both of the
editors are no longer active

And a lot has changed in that time!


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> Ted
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