Re: superset and subset specification

On 7/10/23 2:14 PM, Nathan Rixham wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 6:07 PM Nathan Rixham <nathan@webr3.org> wrote:
>
>     ... unless either:
>     a) a superset specification was designed, which essentially says
>     any <uri> which dereference to an RDF response that asserts <uri>
>     a :Agent (where :Agent is a well specified class in a published
>     ontology) w/ note MAY 303 to handle range-14, or
>     b) a subset specification was designed, as above but constrained
>     to a single media type json(-ld)
>
>     My personal opinion would be either to let it just move to solid
>     and kill this group, or take some consensus to scrap the current
>     specification, and produce (a) + (b) above, where (a) is deferred
>     to by solid and anything else implementing webid, and (b) is a
>     subset which allows parties to produce a very specific set of
>     tooling, webid implementations that are only json-ld.
>
>
> This could be merged to one specification, which also defined an open 
> ended list of sub specifications, as such:
>
> WebID broadly defines a <uri> which dereferences to an RDF response 
> that asserts <uri> a webid:Agent, is a webid. (note about 303)
>
> WebID also defines an open ended list of sub specifications, where for 
> each valid rdf response type, webid-{type} is an implementation which 
> is constrained to require only that specific type.
>
> With that, we'd cover all bases, and webid-turtle, webid-jsonld, and 
> many more, would automatically fall out.


+1


>
> The specification would likely never need to be updated, be quite 
> concise, and require only the publication of a simple vocabulary to 
> cover webid:Agent, or some such universal term.
>
> The current webid specification, would be superseded by both WebID, 
> and its inferred subspecification WebID-Turtle.


+1


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