Indeed - if I could ask one of you fine people (Sarven?) to fill out our issue template to open up a review request then we can pick it up at our f2f this coming week. Dan ------- Original Message ------- On Sunday, July 24th, 2022 at 16:33, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote: > (I believe this needs a tracking issue in the TAG github, presumably > https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues ). > > On Sun, 24 Jul 2022 at 14:18, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> wrote: > >> Solid is a growing protocol/movement, and the tech parts of it — the Solid Project — are basically a W3C Community group. >> >> Solid adds things which the web needed but hadn’t yet standardized, including global single sign-in, standard access control, and a fast API for data read-write between an app and a store (a Solid Pod). By making the API to the store universal, it means you don’t have to change the store when you make a new app, which completely changes the architecture and markets and business models which are possible. It also leaves individuals empowered rather than exploited. > > Are you also open to sympathetically skeptical comments on how the Solid architecture does or doesn’t support these incredibly ambitious goals? > > I have this hard to articulate sense that the Solid project is tying itself very tightly to one specific design for fine grained data interop, potentially at the expense of its role as a unifying “rallying cry” for users-first platform design, data control/access, portability, transparency, openness etc. These are values that have been shared across diverse groups who have been working on different (if hopefully complementary) pieces of the puzzle, and exploring different tradeoffs and priorities. > > I could well imagine that Solid’s formal protocol specs check out ok at face value, i.e. “yup, it does what it says on the tin”, while still meriting serious discussion on whether this very technical use of RDF will get the web ecosystem to where you want it to be. > > Best, > > Dan > >> Would it be reasonable for the TAG to review the architecture at a high level, or review the protocol? It would be useful to get a knowledge of the Solid stack in neighboring parts of the technology. >> >> (A separate future question are the client-client interop specs which are needed for interop between apps, such as contacts, chat, etc.) >> >> See https://solidproject.org/. https://solidproject.org/TR is where the specs end up after their github-based proces. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Tim BL
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