Re: Observations on WebID definition and specification

Sorry to nitpick, but Solid is not a W3C spec.

Why can’t we use SPARQL (Protocol) or SHACL for reference? These are some
of the most succesful RDF specs IMO.

On Tue, 6 Feb 2024 at 09.58, Jacopo Scazzosi <jacopo@scazzosi.com> wrote:

> Hello Kingsley,
>
> > Who has implementation concerns regarding this direction? Ideally, they
> should identify themselves and participate in the discussion.
>
> I don’t want to speak for others but, off the top of my mind:
>
> - Wouter has made this point multiple times, one of which in [1].
>
> - Sarven has made this point at least once in [3] (and you have +1ed that
> comment).
>
> - Solid appears to require clients to request "WebID Profiles” using
> text/turtle or application/ld+json [2] (though I am confused as to whether
> they actually meant to use Content-Type rather than Accept). This doesn’t
> mean we necessarily need to follow what Solid does; I’m just pointing this
> out to keep track of potential breaking changes with respect to what others
> are doing; interop. with the current ecosystem is also a priority.
>
> I can dig up more if you’d like me to, though I would prefer to let people
> speak their own mind.
>
> Best,
> Jacopo.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/w3c/WebID/issues/3#issuecomment-1879750583
> [2]: https://solid.github.io/webid-profile/#reading-profile
> [3]: https://github.com/w3c/WebID/issues/17#issuecomment-1877196126
>
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 6 February 2024 09:24:35 UTC