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

Melvin Carvalho writes:

> On 19 October 2015 at 17:27, Christopher Allan Webber <
> cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:
>
>> Christopher Allan Webber writes:
>>
>> > Sarven Capadisli writes:
>> >
>> >> The design of the Social API doesn't need to rely on any particular
>> >> vocabulary. People will use whatever vocabulary they deem to be
>> >> appropriate to describe their own "social" data. The Social API will
>> >> merely enable the data to be passed. The challenge for the Social API is
>> >> to lay down some form of a common denominator of the social API-like
>> >> things that's needed. IMHO, the API shouldn't be restricted to the
>> >> current candidates (with varying degree of quality and coverage):
>> >> ActivityPump, MicroPub, SoLiD. Certainly there are other decentralized
>> >> approaches out there which should be studied?
>> >
>> > So I'm of a different opinion.  There's a hodgepodge of federation
>> > standards out there.  They exist outside of the group already, and we
>> > have multiple within the group, and that's fine, but one of the reasons
>> > I joined this group is that despite trying to create a decentralized
>> > network, *almost none of these sites can work together*.
>> >
>> > My goal is to work on a standard so that we can get past this fragmented
>> > state of federation.  I think the exploration work is fine and
>> > interesting, but is that really defining a standard?  And it's not going
>> > to help address the issue above.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Im unsure this is 100% correct.
>
> Solid and activity streams are close to being able to work together as
> evidenced by:
>
> https://github.com/solid/solid-spec#brief-example-of-solid-in-action

That's true!

> There's a few details to iron out, but convergence is at this point close.
> The main overriding issue is that Solid is a new spec, and a small team, so
> the complexity of the work involved may affect how it it prioritized.
>
> Contingents from the micropub community (known) and Ostatus community
> (diaspora) have indicated they would be open to also giving this a try.
>
> So I would say that yes, having a less fractured social web is a goal.

I am really interested in getting there.

Received on Monday, 19 October 2015 20:43:43 UTC