feat: uses IRI rather than URI or URL #67
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Thank you @TallTed for reviewing! |
…tween IRIs, URIs and URLs by referencing higher-level specs
| the respective [=WebID Profile Document=]. | ||
| A WebID is an IRI with a HTTP(S) scheme that refers to an Agent (Person, | ||
| Organization, Group, Device, etc.); a description of the Agent named by the | ||
| WebID can be found in the respective [=WebID Profile Document=]. |
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Probably just a chicken-or-the-egg thing, so just noting that this will need to change once this other PR is merged: #69:
| WebID can be found in the respective [=WebID Profile Document=]. | |
| WebID can be found in the respective [=WebID Document=]. |
| which itself indicates that it describes the Agent named by the WebID. | ||
| :: An identifier in the form of an IRI with a HTTP(S) scheme that | ||
| unambiguously names an Agent and, when dereferenced, always leads to a | ||
| [=WebID Profile Document=] which itself indicates that it describes the |
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Probably just a chicken-or-the-egg thing, so just noting that this will need to change once this other PR is merged: #69:
| [=WebID Profile Document=] which itself indicates that it describes the | |
| [=WebID Document=] which itself indicates that it describes the |
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FWIW still have security concerns regarding phishing attacks, with characters that look similar, regarding this change. |
Yep @melvincarvalho, I think that's well understood, and clearly articulated even on the simple and accessible (i.e., readable for anyone, techie or not) Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_Resource_Identifier (i.e., there's no need to read an entire spec for that to be made clear to people). But I'm sure you'd agree with the entire RDF community for these past 20+ years that that understandable concern doesn't outweigh the clear advantages for our billions of non-Latin-alphabet-aware friends on the planet, as also clearly articulated on that Wikipedia page, i.e.: "mostly, it makes it easier for users who are unfamiliar with the Latin (A–Z) alphabet". |
This is the wrong issue for that conversation, as it's off topic. WebID is more about your |
This PR closes long-standing #10 by replacing usages of "URI" with "IRI" and expanding on the relationship between IRIs, URIs and URLs, referencing and deferring to higher-level specs.
Though theoretically a breaking change, in practice this PR changes little to nothing. Setting the deadline for review in two weeks, on 2024-04-01.
Do not bother reviewing the
spec/identity/index.htmlas that's automatically updated by our current CI setup based on the contents ofspec/identity/index.bs. We'll sort this out in a separate issue / PR.EDIT: links to the rendered files: