Re: The proposed WebID hard fork

Hello Melvin,

First of all, the concept of “hard fork” does not apply here. Nobody is trying to fork the WebID specifications and, as I’ve explained in [1] and elsewhere, the 2014 ED makes its own nature as an ED very clear. Also, note that "format neutrality” would be just as breaking a change as the MUST on Turtle and JSON-LD for publishers. As for the latter, support for it has mostly been stated in [7] but also appears in other threads, such as [8].

Furthermore, as per issue #61 [6], which in turn started off of [5], there’s a significant chance that the option of dropping all MUSTs on serialization formats might accrue an even larger consensus than the MUST on Turtle and JSON-LD for publishers. I’m waiting for others to pitch in before re-assessing where the largest consensus lies.

With reference to your other email to the group [2], note that PR #60 [3] already changes the definitions to make them more neutral when it comes to serialization formats. See this line [4] in particular.

Best,
Jacopo.


[1]: https://github.com/w3c/WebID/issues/58#issuecomment-1925809369 
[2]: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webid/2024Feb/0064.html 
[3]: https://github.com/w3c/WebID/pull/60
[4]: https://github.com/w3c/WebID/pull/60/files#diff-274f5e91238718e44b429797b66dcdc21e2d576ae2e0e769f0279840e5196945R195
[5]: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webid/2024Feb/0005.html
[6]: https://github.com/w3c/WebID/issues/61
[7]: https://github.com/w3c/WebID/issues/3 
[8]: https://github.com/w3c/WebID/issues/17#issuecomment-1877196126 

Received on Saturday, 17 February 2024 10:28:56 UTC