Re: Coherent (modern) definition of RWW

LDP is a poor protocol period.

Graph Store Protocol is more appropriate for RWW. After all, Linked
Data can be looked at as a giant global table of quads.

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 3:40 PM Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/17/21 8:44 AM, Timothy Holborn wrote:
> > The concept of RWW started a long time ago.
>
>
> Yes, it is as old as the World Wide Web (Web) itself.
>
> The Web is simply a document network constructed from hyperlinks
> (specifically HTTP URIs) that denote:
>
> 1. Entities of type Document
>
> 2. Entity Relationship Types that are transitive in nature i.e.,
> "links_to" relation .
>
> An unfortunate characteristic of the Web is that there isn't consensus
> regarding:
>
> 1. Entity Identifiers
> 2. Entity Types
> 3. Entity Relationship Types e.g., what is the canonical "links_to"
> relation and what is its identifier?
>
> So confusion reigns leaving opportunity for abuse and detrimental
> exploitation as the world has experienced en masse re:
>
> 1. Quixotic state of Democracy
>
> 2. COVID-19 Pandemic
>
> 3. Misinformation and Fake News
>
>
> >
> > Question posed is;
> >
> > What's the modern (well referenced) definition?  (Incremental growth
> > of past "definitions, etc.  Perhaps therein also, better clarity of
> > previously assumed characteristics / constituencies, etc.)
>
>
> A Read-Write Web is a hyperlink-based network that offers both read and
> write capabilities to its users. Nothing has changed, bar increased
> murkiness surrounding:
>
> 1. Identity
> 2. Identification
> 3. Authentication
> 4. Authorization
> 5. Storage
>
>
> >
> > A few substantial papers have been written on it, historically.
>
>
> Yes, and they've achieve little if anything -- IMHO.
>
>
> >
> > So, What are some basic truths about the scope of works, and it's
> > place in a broader ecosystem?
> >
> > To illustrate the deliberation / question: (as distinct to a "brand
> > name" alternative framework; that may have differences),
> >
> > - RWW Builds upon LDP?
>
>
> LDP is a poorly named RWW protocol.
>
>
> > - concerns multi-agent use of web-cloud or web-server infrastructure?
>
>
> Conceptually yes, but cannot work practically without clarity about
> items 1-5 above. Unfortunately, these waters remain murky for political
> rather than technical reasons -- IMHO.
>
>
> > - Relates to the permissive use of software agents? (If so, how?)
>
>
> See comment above.
>
>
> > - is built upon HTTP(s/a/'X') agents?
> >
> > V2 supports
> > - "tamper evident" provenance in (a yet to be determined) defined way?
> > - supports informatics sources from decentralised agents (or:
> > "blockchains")
> > - temporal uniformity of semantic queries on a temporaral basis (or:
> > decentralised temporal queries?)
> >
> > I thought I'd pose the points as a question rather than as a
> > statement, in seeking to be constructive...
>
>
> It boils down to solving the murkiness around items 1-5 above, IMHO.
>
>
> Kingsley
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Timothy Holborn.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
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>
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