Re: Reconciling theory and in practice -- do the specs need updating?

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> ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"] should only be offered up by
>> the server or agent if and only if it supports the whole normative
>> standard, otherwise a subset, superset, or intersecting set, OWL turtle
>> spec should be offered up.
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> If there is an obligation to produce, serve, and use a "subset"
> vocabulary, that means that we might find that many servers offer distinct
> subsets, and many servers will have server-specific names for subsets also
> served by others. Thus, unless there are a small number of servers, it is
> likely that a message processor will often find it necessary to fetch a
> copy of a server-specific vocabulary before processing a message. This
> would properly irritate developers while also slowing down the processing
> of messages. (There's already quite a lot of anti-LinkedData grumbling...)
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Unless things are cached and/or compiled down to code.