Re: WebID definition -- proposal: drop the word 'uniquely'

On 11 February 2013 15:25, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

>
> On 11 Feb 2013, at 12:06, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> "A WebID is an HTTP URI which uniquely denotes an Agent (Person,
> Organization, Group, Device, etc.)."
>
> I propose we drop 'uniquely'.  Unclear it adds anything here and may be
> confusing (at least it was to me).
>
> If the implication is that the webid contains 1 or more IFP that are
> unique, it's not even clear to me how we would test that.
>
>
> Not sure which spec you are reading. It's not in here:
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/WebID/raw-file/tip/spec/identity-respec.htm
>

I was looking at:

https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/WebID/raw-file/tip/spec/identity-respec.html


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> [[
> A WebID is a URI with an HTTP or HTTPS scheme which denotes an Agent
> (Person, Organization, Group, Device, etc.). For WebIDs with fragment
> identifiers (e.g. #me), the URI without the fragment denotes the Profile
> Document. For WebIDs without fragment identifiers an HTTP request on the
> WebID *must* return a 303 with a Location header URI referring to the
> Profile Document.
> ]]
>
> Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
>
>

Received on Monday, 11 February 2013 14:57:07 UTC