Re: W3C - Social Web Working Group

On 07/21/2014 12:40 PM, henry.story@bblfish.net wrote:
> On 21 Jul 2014, at 18:29, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-07-21 18:23, Sandro Hawke wrote:
>>> On 07/21/2014 12:20 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
>>>> By pure accident I found this:
>>>> http://www.w3.org/Social/WG
>>>>
>>>> Anders
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It's also being announced on the front page, w3.org, and in various
>>> media, today.
>>>
>>>         -- Sandro
>>>
>>>
>> It doesn't appear that WebID is a part of this effort.
>>
>> This is somewhat strange because a Social Web without a login seems like a moderately clever idea.
> I am not quite clear how successful this effort is going to be. It seems like that they could not quite
> get an agreement on JSON-LD in the charter. http://www.w3.org/2013/socialweb/social-wg-charter.html
> On the plus side: Arnaud le Hors is chairing it, and as he was chair of LDP it could have a chance to move in the
> right direction.
>
> The LDP groups is producing a note for access control. WebID is a good candidate for this.
>
> In any case you should not expect standards bodies to be solution providers. They are places where
> people can try to come to agreements. It does not always work.

+1    I'm cautiously optimistic, and plan to participate for a while and 
see how it's going, at least.

      -- Sandro

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

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