- From: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:42:48 +0100
- To: SDW WG Public List <public-sdw-wg@w3.org>
More on the topic of HTTP or HTTPS. Context: W3C and others are encouraging the greater use of HTTPS, we'd like this to be the norm as the Web becomes more secure and trusted. The automatic switching to https seen on w3.org now uses new fangled ways of doing stuff that avoid us having to make any changes to long-established resources. For new resources, we have more choice of course. For example, in BP 1 the Intended Outcome is (currently): Entities (SpatialThings) described in a dataset will each be identified using a globally unique HTTP URI so that a given entity can be unambiguously identified in statements that refer to that entity. I would suggest that this could say: "...using a globally unique HTTP or HTTPS URI..." We may want to include wording somewhere along the lines of "The upside of using HTTPS URIs is increased security for applications that dereference them. A downside could be that existing tools might not handle HTTPS "well". An upside could be that such tools would be upgraded to have better security or would be upgraded to use a cached copy of the namespace." HTH Phil. For tracker: Action-107 -- Phil Archer W3C Data Activity Lead http://www.w3.org/2013/data/ http://philarcher.org +44 (0)7887 767755 @philarcher1
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