- From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:11:36 -0500
- To: Ben Werdmüller <ben@withknown.com>
- Cc: "public-socialweb\@w3.org" <public-socialweb@w3.org>
Ben Werdmüller writes: > Folks, > > I want to revisit my statement here. I apologize for not being in the > calls, and I think it's important that my intention isn't mischaracterized. > > My intention was: "agree on something, and we will implement it". It was > not: "we love Activity Streams 2.0". > > I wrote a piece the other day about web standards that adds further detail > to my position ( > http://stream.withknown.com/2015/a-short-note-about-web-standards-from-your-friends-at). > It's important, in my opinion, that any standard is: > > * Open > * Easy to implement > * Agnostic to ideology > > This was true of HTML, and it's true (perhaps to a lesser extent) of RSS. > The cool thing about the web is that you can build something in an hour, > and I think it was key to its success. It started simple and iterated > through real-world use, which is how all successful technologies on the web > are built. Even the img tag, as we all know, was added later. > Standardization through organic use is powerful. > > Known has the indieweb technologies built in, alongside RSS, because > they're simple, which is why I believe in them (we're about to deploy > across several university campuses, which will multiply the total userbase > by a factor of at least 6). They in themselves are iterations on Atom > primitives. To be clear, I'm not adverse to adding other technologies to > the mix at all - what I think is important is that the users of a > decentralized social web are a core part of determining its direction, > rather than it being dictated in a top-down fashion. > > So, to revisit "agree on something, and we will implement it", for what > it's worth, I'd prefer it was a lightweight starting point that the web can > iterate on. > > Ben Ben, I agree with this and would like to see it happen. Getting any sort of agreement seems to be the hard part, now...
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