Re: Server administrator & accounts on shared instances (+ToS)

I agree, Ben, that it takes a really long time to vote. (in fact, Adam and I are seriously at risk of not finishing, since it turns out he will be out all next week.)

Nonetheless, we were finding people's explanations very useful.

In regards to the subsequent suggestion that people should use the Talk page -- that would've been OK if we'd all agreed to do that. But, as elf said, that has not been the pattern of this group. Besides, it seems a lot faster and easier to read a comment right next to the related vote.

 - Ann

Ann Bassetti
From: Ben
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 9:05 AM
To: ☮ elf Pavlik ☮
Cc: public-socialweb@w3.org; amy G
Subject: Re: Server administrator & accounts on shared instances (+ToS)


Getting tired of defending -1 votes.  Just vote +1 it if you think its important.  Thats the point of voting isn't it?

Ben

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:49 AM, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org<mailto:perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org>> wrote:
Ahoy o/

I just noticed on User Stories page comments from Ben
"-1. What server administrator? This is distributed, There may be none.
 — Ben Roberts"
e.g.
https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/Social_API/User_stories#Contest_content_report



I understand that IndieWeb community focuses on specific scenario where
everyone hosts one's own account. At the same time I think that here we
also take into account scenarios where one instance, managed by server
admin(s), provides accounts for many people. We see it out in a wild
with Diaspora, Friendica, Pump.io, MediaGoblin etc.

Could we clarify + document that we stay on the same page which
*includes* IndieWeb style of deployments but doesn't put such constraint
on everyone? Not sure where to put it on a wiki, maybe something like
"Deployment Consideration" page?

BTW I also included in my exprimental drafts[1][2], concept of Terms of
Service, which will come relevant here and will differ a lot from what
we know in ecosystem with handful of services dominating ecosystem and
expecting people to actually read ToS.

Cheers!

[1] http://w3c-social.github.io/soc-glossary/

[2] http://w3c-social.github.io/soc-arch/