Re: feasibility of dropping Turtle=MUST from WebID ED 2014

Melvin, just letting you know I replied to your mail on github:
https://github.com/w3c/WebID/issues/3#issuecomment-1879750583.

On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 8:18 AM Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Been having some interesting chats with Kingsley, and one route that he
> has suggested to get to our goal of a modern webid set of specs would be to
> drop Turtle=MUST
>
> I personally see this as something that would be hard to gain consensus on
> because:
>
> 1. The spec is already in use
> 2. Solid is at least loosely based on this work
> 3. Dropping MUST means that there is no guaranteed interop, potentially
> degrading the UX in some systems
> 4. Timbl might not be in favour of such a change
>
> I could be completely wrong on any or all of these things, but I thought
> I'd ask the group, so that we spend our time on the things with best chance
> of proceeding
>
> If we can rule this path out then I think we have a relatively easy task
> of defining a webid, writing examples and tests, then have multiple
> profiles based on that shared understanding, of which WebID ED 2015, can be
> one
>
> In short, I think we're 90% of the way home after defining the key webid
> terms in a stable place
>
> Just wondering what folks think on this path, if removing turtle=MUST it's
> a non-starter, it would be good to establish early.  And that gives us
> better clarity to get the modernized definitions and spec over the line,
> modulo a few compromises.
>