[VM] Tuesday Jan 24 telecon agenda

I can attend Monday's SWBP telecon but will arrive late,
circa 18:30-18:45 UTC.

I have attached the agenda for tomorrow's VM telecon, with
an up-to-date summary of where things stand.  Note that we
will henceforth meet one hour later than before.

Tom


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SWBPD VM 2006-01-24 telecon agenda

Tuesday, 15:00 UTC (16:00 Berlin)
http://www.w3.org/Guide/1998/08/teleconference-calendar#D20060124
Zakim: +1.617.761.6200
Conference code 8683# ('VMTF')
irc://irc.w3.org:6665/vmtf

Recent telecons
-- 2006-01-10: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2006Jan/0005.html
-- 2006-01-17: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2006Jan/0079.html

Next telecons (weekly) - note change of time:
-- 2005-01-31 Tue 1500 UTC http://www.w3.org/Guide/1998/08/teleconference-calendar#D20060131

AGENDA

1.  Editor's Draft 
    "Best Practice Recipes for Serving RDFS and OWL Vocabularies"
    http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/VM/http-examples/2005-11-18/

    1.1. Status: We want to go for "note" status [4] within the
         charter period for the BPD working group.  BPDWG will
         probably be extended by three months, so there will
         be an opportunity to make revisions.

    1.2. Name of the cookbook is "Best Practice Recipes for
         Serving RDFS and OWL Vocabularies".  This was decided
         on Jan 17.  Since then, Frank Manola has argued for
         "shorter is better"
         http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2006Dec/0065.html.
         Dan suggests pushing the metaphor to a sub-heading; referring
         just to "RDF vocabs" instead of RDFS and OWL, and "publishing"
         instead of "serving",
         http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2006Dec/0068.html.

2.  Responses to reviews

    On Jan 10, we decided that in January we would discuss
    reviewer comments and formulate responses to reviewers
    on the list.

    2.1. David Booth review
         http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2005Dec/0124.html
         -- Global suggestions
            G1. To discuss trade-offs between hash and slash URIs
                Response: Ralph has addressed this with added text in the
                introduction. David has not yet indicated whether he is 
                satisfied.

            G2. To avoid purl.org recipes, which violate TAG resolution 
                with 302 redirect code.

                Problem with purl.org: It is not enough to change all 302s to
                303s because 302 is appropriate for most URIs.  So the purl.org
                maintainers would have to implement a feature for users to
                specify that some resource is a non-information resource.
                This would require changes to the database.  Are there any
                options to do a double redirection? I.e. if purl returns a
                302 redirect, then my own server does a 303.  On Jan 17, decided
                to clarify with TAG whether inferences are supposed to be made
                already on the initial response code.
                
                ACTION: Alistair draft the question (i.e., that only the
                initial response code matters) for discussion in VM, then
                send to TAG.  Done on Jan 17:
                http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2006Jan/0076.html
                This draft note to TAG
                -- suggests they coin a URI for class "resource"
                   (tag:informationResource) so that things like rdfs:Class,
                   owl:Class, and rdf:Property could be declared disjoint with it.
                -- requests clarification on what implication one can draw when
                   303 is returned as opposed to 200 ("X is a tag:infoResource").

                ACTION: Alistair to put the purl.org material into an Appendix.

         -- Specific recipes
            Recipe 3.  Interpretation of a fragment identifier in the
                       presence of 303 redirects is unclear, so recipe
                       should note that browser may or may not apply
                       fragment identifier to secondary URI.

         -- Editorial suggestions
            E1. Shorter URIs in the examples would be better.
                Alistair would rather leave the longer URIs for now because
                a UK server is configured to support them, see
                http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2006Jan/0034.html.
                Ralph suggests using w3c URIs in the final version (with
                shorter URIs for the examples).

            E2. At the beginning of each recipe, say what the URIs would return.

                Alistair proposes to illustrate this graphically, so added images
                http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2006Jan/0034.html.
                David Booth actually intended simply to spell out which URIs
                are redirected to.  Ralph wonders whether the images really add any
                new information.

                On Jan 18, Alistair reorganized recipes 1 and
                2, adding short description of outcomes as
                per Booth suggestion.  Added examples with
                expected outcomes for purpose of testing.
                Wants to organize the rest like this when
                IE6 bug resolved.

    2.2. Andreas Harth review
         http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2006Jan/0004.html
         -- The document has too many choices - suggests
            cutting down to 3 or 4 covering 80% of the cases.
         -- Suggests content negotiation instead of mod_rewrite
            modules.  Response at:
            http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2005Dec/0016.html
         -- Suggests mod_alias instead of mod_rewrite.
         -- Maybe put purl.org examples into an appendix.

3.  Default response

    RDF as the default response was discussed in
    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2005Dec/0022.html

    Alistair finds that conditional redirects work different
    with Mozilla and IE6 because the two browsers send different
    Accept headers with an HTTP GET request.  Hence if we want 
    URIs to be clickable in IE, either we
     (a) leave the recipes as they are and ask IE to send more headers, or
     (b) change the recipes around and ask RDF toolkits to send more 
         headers.
    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2006Jan/0069.html

    Alistair proposes to make the recipes IE friendly and serve HTML content
    as the default response where content negotiation is configured.
    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2006Jan/0071.html
    Initial tests show that this works as desired.

4.  TAG httpRange-14 decision [10]

    There have been recent comments on the list about the TAG
    decision by David Booth: [11] summarizing best practice
    issues around the decision, [12] on minting http URIs,
    and [13] on 302 versus 303 redirects; by David Wood: [15]
    with a use case for RDF; and and by Jacco van Ossenbruggen
    [14], reviewing the comments by David Wood and David Booth.

    In BPD, the idea arose to write a TAG-like "finding"
    to explain the impact of the httpRange-14 decision.
    David Booth and David Wood wrote drafts independently.
    Probably not enough time in BPD to start a new document,
    so could they be incorporated into cookbook?  David Booth
    agreed to go to propose a short section for us to consider.
    General agreement that we should avoid getting too
    historical -- just cover practical results.  Some of
    what David Booth has written could plausibly be recast
    as introductory material on how to choose reasonable
    namespace names.

5.  Testing
    
    ACTION: Ralph to test recipes with W3C configuration.

6.  xml:base and hash URIs

    On Jan 20, Alistair discovered that if you put a hash at the end
    of the base URI, e.g.:
        xml:base="http://example.com/foo#"
    the hash is ignored when constructing relative URIs.  Discussion followed.

[10] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2005Jun/0039.html
[11] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2005Dec/0055.html
[12] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2005Dec/0056.html
[13] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2005Dec/0123.html
[14] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2005Dec/0085.html
[15] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2005Sep/0010.html



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