Re: Publishing updated spec documents.

Hi everyone,

It is my pleasure to let you know that Stéphane has published the specs,
which are now available at http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/.
Please allow me to congratulate everyone one more time on the progress that
has been made!

Best,
Andrei


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:

>  On 3/3/14 12:16 PM, bergi wrote:
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>  Am 25.02.2014 17:17, schrieb Andrei Sambra:
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>  > Hi all,> > I would like to formally invite everyone to review the current version> of the specs for WebID [1] and WebID-TLS [2] so that we can have a> formal call this Friday (Feb 28th), at the usual time [3]. The purpose> of this call will be to agree on the contents of the new documents so> that the editors can finally publish them.> > Best,> Andrei> > > [1] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/WebID/raw-file/tip/spec/identity-respec.html> [2] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/WebID/raw-file/tip/spec/tls-respec.html> [3] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/Main_Page#Meetings
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>  Can we remove the HTTP protocol restriction from the Identity spec? I
> think the idea for the separation was to have an abstract/generic
> definition of WebID, and a separate spec for initial implementation
> (i.e., WebID+TLS). This abstract definition should just reference IRIs
> (without scheme), so in the future other specs could be based on our
> work. At the same time, people who implement WebID+TLS today with RDF
> (and thus HTTP) can be sure they support the whole spec.
>
> bergi
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> I am sure you know this was the subject of a protracted debate. The issue
> was concluded when TimBL explained (in a manner I accepted) the reasoning
> behind HTTP specificity in regards to WebIDs. It simply boils down to "Web"
> meaning "World Wide Web" and the "World Wide Web" being an HTTP based
> linked document network .
>
> The net effect of this approach is that we can look at the role of
> identifiers re., networks as follows:
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> 1. URLs -- HTTP URIs that denote documents and by their very nature enable
> the creation of linked document networks (aspect of the Web the world knows
> and uses)
> 2. WebIDs -- HTTP URIs that denote agents and by their very nature enable
> the creation of linked data networks (aspect of the Web the world is
> beginning to understand via the Linked Open Data cloud) .
>
> In the future, in the absolute worst case, we have NetIDs which are
> basically resovable IRIs that by their very nature enable the creation of
> linked data networks be it at the Web or Internet level (e.g., an Internet
> of Things where denotation is based on this kind of IRI).
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> I hope this clears up matters. We really need to get the basic WebID spec
> out, as soon as possible.
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> Regards,
>
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