Re: SHOULD/MUST fragment identifier definition question

On 10 December 2012 14:10, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

> A question to supporters of SHOULD/MUST:
>
> This is to be found in the terminology section:
>
> for MUST:
>
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/WebID/raw-file/d21603d3972a/spec/identity-respec.html#terminology
> [[
> A WebID is a URI with an http or https scheme, which contains a  URI
> fragment identifier (i.e. a #id ) and which uniquely denotes an Agent
> (Person, Organization, Group, Device, etc.). The URI without the fragment
> identifier denotes the WebID Profile page.
> ]]
> should the text contain a MUST there, or is the above strong enough?
>
> for SHOULD:
>
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/WebID/raw-file/http-hash-uri-should/spec/identity-respec.html#terminology
> [[
> A WebID is a URI with an HTTP or HTTPS scheme which uniquely denotes an
> Agent (Person, Organization, Group, Device, etc.). This URI SHOULD include
> a fragment identifier (a string after a "#" character).
> ]]
>
> Does a hash URI require a string after the hash character?
>
> Facebook for example does not have such a string as you can see here:
>
>   curl -H "Accept: text/turtle" http://graph.facebook.com/bblfish
>
> Also is the terminology section the normative one?
>

I think http://graph.facebook.com/bblfish#<http://graph.facebook.com/bblfish>as
facebook have is fine?  Any reason that there might be an issue with
this?

If anything, this might be a best practice for pages that are designed to
contain only one subject, as facebook profiles seem to be.


>
>   Henry
>
> Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
>
>

Received on Monday, 10 December 2012 13:20:07 UTC