Re: Should we complete the WebID spec?

st 1. 11. 2023 v 22:52 odesílatel Nathan Rixham <nathan@webr3.org> napsal:

> On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 9:16 PM Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Group
>>
>> I trust this message finds you well.
>>
>> Over the last couple of days in Solid CG we have been discussing the
>> possibility of a "Solid-Lite" spec.
>>
>> I have begun drafting it, but there's two remaining sections that I need
>> to complete.
>>
>> 1. A lite WebID profile
>> 2. A lite authentication method for said profile
>>
>> Considering recent events, it's entirely understandable if the group
>> feels hesitant to pursue the WebID Specs further. I've made an effort to
>> capture our previous discussions and integrated aspects from Nathan's
>> superset/subset proposal, which you can review here:
>>
>> https://github.com/webidcg/draft-spec
>>
>> So I was wondering if there is an appetite to carry on working, or to
>> call it a day.  We dont have a chair but we were operating via Jacopo's
>> proposal of lazy consensus.
>>
>> We could use that system to decide whether or not to close the group.
>>
>> Or to carry on and complete Nathan's suggestion.
>>
>> Does anyone have thoughts on this?
>>
>
> For human to human and basic uses, "what is your webid? it's <x>" will
> suffice
>
> For machine readable data, a type Agent, and a property with a domain of
> Agent would suffice.
>
> For anything more advanced, such as protocol usage to verify ownership
> (webid-tls for example) or similar, then further requirements may be
> placed, such as constraining a media type set or determining a validation
> method.
>
> I guess, how much does the group want to specify?
>
> At a bare minimum, I'd say "a type Agent, and a property with a domain of
> Agent " is required, then perhaps a spec to say x,y,z media types have an
> ontology describing this available.
>

Would I would need right now would be:

1. a concrete data example that could be copy and pasted, maybe this would
be JSON(-LD) with an @context, or something similar

2. an authentication-lite method for that data example (in order to test)