- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:28:38 -0500
- To: Jonathan A Rees <rees@mumble.net>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
I find the document at http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/uddp-20120229/ to be hard to read, overly broad, unproductively pedantic and unnecessarily entangling philosophical questions with simple matters of protocol design. As an alternate proposal, I have started a significantly simplified document on the W3C wiki at http://www.w3.org/wiki/UriDefinitionDiscoveryProtocol Others are encouraged to contribute. The goals are: - to be simpler, clearer and more direct; - to limit the scope to http (and https) URIs, because this is where the LOD community is experiencing the problem that this specification addresses; - to specify this as a simple protocol between a URI owner that wishes to provide a URI definition, and an agent that wishes to discover that URI definition; - to avoid placing constraints on the form or meaning of a URI definition; - to avoid placing constraints on an application's use of a URI definition; - to additionally specify a simple "implicit" URI definition that can be used in the case where a resource is defined implicitly as being an "information resource" (as a result of an HTTP 200 "OK" status code being returned, as per the httpRange-14 resolution[issue-14-resolved]); - to be consistent with the existing httpRange-14 resolution[issue-14-resolved], the existing Cool URIs for the Semantic Web[cooluris] document and existing practice. Thanks! David On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 10:57 -0500, Jonathan A Rees wrote: > Concerns regarding the efficiency of 303 redirects and the difficulty > in deploying them on hosting services have been raised numerous times > since the TAG proposed the 303 redirect as a way to use "hashless" > URIs for semantic web and linked data purposes (i.e. beyond the > purposes of the hypertext Web). The TAG now seeks input from the > community in the form of proposals to amend the resolution in order to > address these concerns. Proposals may give new discovery techniques, > or take any other form that might help mitigate these problems. > > Please consult the following document for details of this call: > > http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/uddp/change-proposal-call.html > > (I will be re-posting this call to the semantic web and linked data > discussion lists in a few hours, after www-tag readers have pointed > out any egregious errors, and after I have had a chance to resubscribe > to the lists under my new email address, so that I have posting > privileges.) > > Best > Jonathan Rees > > > -- David Booth, Ph.D. http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of his employer.
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