- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:01:39 +0200
- To: WebID Incubator Group WG <public-xg-webid@w3.org>
Just reposting this here because some people may have just switched off from the "self-signed" thread by now, and this is a worthwhile proposal for everyone to look at, consider or improve upon. On 19 Apr 2011, at 22:46, Dan Brickley wrote: > [snip] > > For the sake of all our inboxes, can this lengthy discussion be turned > into discussion of proposed text for a WebID specification? > > For example, who can live with: > > "A WebID is a URI (IRI, technically). Although the basic operation of > the protocol is applicable to any URI scheme for which there is some > practical notion of 'de-reference'[1], initial implementors have found > most interoperability through using the common http and https > schemes." > > I don't particular care for this text. But I care to see people > arguing productively, and that's more likely when we keep our eyes on > the prize... > > I suggest an analogy with HTML's <img> tag; somehow the market settles > on conventions for what to point to, without the spec having to > dictate particular versions of particular allowed formats. > > cheers, > > Dan > > issue: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/track/issues/55 > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#dereference-uri
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