Re: New project for documenting miscellaneous terms

(That's not the recommended way to do extensions any more,
but it was popular in the early days of AP.)

Is this true? All of the extensions I've seen that we use for Mastodon
explicitly say {@id: "as:whatever"} in the context document. Which
extensions are you referring to?

On Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 6:37 PM Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name> wrote:

> Hello! In our meeting on Friday, the CG decided to create a report
> documenting widely-used terms added to the Activity Streams 2.0
> namespace using the "@vocab" feature so far in the history of the protocol.
>
> (If you just drop a property into an AS2 document, because the AS2
> context document includes '@vocab: "_:"', those properties are in the
> AS2 namespace. That's not the recommended way to do extensions any more,
> but it was popular in the early days of AP.)
>
> The goal of this report is to document popular terms inserted into the
> AS2 namespace, and include them in a separate context document. Then, we
> can use the Extensions Policy to add the terms into the AS2 context.
>
> The secondary goal is to test the SocialCG's extension policy, currently
> in draft status:
>
> https://swicg.github.io/extensions-policy/
>
> This project would push the bounds of that extension policy in at least
> one way; it doesn't use a well-defined namespace -- by definition! But
> otherwise it should be a good test of the policy.
>
> If you have ideas for existing undocumented AS2 terms seen in the wild
> that should be included, please make a note here:
>
> https://github.com/swicg/miscellany/issues
>
> The current context doc is here:
>
> https://purl.archive.org/socialweb/miscellany
>
> And the document will be here when it's written (currently boilerplate
> ReSpec):
>
> https://swicg.github.io/miscellany/
>
> Lastly, I had one person step forward to help out with this; if you
> think you'd be a good co-editor on this document, let me know.
>
> Evan
>
>
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