Re: Why not AS2? was Re: Getting the group back on track

Christopher Allan Webber writes:

> To put it another way, we have OStatus, Micropub, Solid, and
> ActivityStreams out there.  None of these sites can work together.  So
> we have a "fractured federation" at the moment.
>
> Here is the key question: is this group aiming to solve this problem?
>
> If the answer is yes, *by what mechanism?*
>
> And if the answer is yes, and there is no desire to even agree upon a
> serialization format, please do spell out how this can happen!  "Create
> a new standard" won't solve the problem, because people are already
> entrenched in their existing solutions, to the point where the group
> can't even achieve consensus on adopting its own standard as a
> serialization format.
>
> If the answer is no, then that's okay, but it means I will need to
> re-evaluate my time.

Here's potentially another suggestion at this point: we could submit the
group into two parts:

 - The part that's devoted to exploring what federation standards are in
   the abstract, and mapping it out,
 - And then we could have a part of the group that goes from start to
   finish with ActivityStreams on the current deliverables.

It would not even need to be two separate groups... it could be two
separate parts of the weekly meeting.

Would that help resolve things?

Received on Monday, 19 October 2015 15:35:48 UTC