Create plan for how to move forward with Inference API

[jbingham]

This is a followup to Issue 41.

Now that the group has decided that an inference API (also known as Load/ Run Model API) is within the charter, let's define the steps to move forward with this.

I've talked with some web standards experts, and will update this thread with concrete steps.

[gregwhitworth]

Thanks for raising this @jbingham - I think I'd simply move forward with beginning spec text with a note that this is not ready for implementation but we welcome prototypes to continue to iterate on the spec.

This CG is public and we're ready to begin authoring out API shape for both inputs and outputs, etc.

[anssiko]

I took an action to transfer https://github.com/jbingham/web-ml-inference under https://github.com/webmachinelearning GitHub org.

Given cool URLs do not change, I'd like us to spend a minute to come up with a repo name that can stand the test of time. I felt web-ml-inference may not be the greatest name? The name should be descriptive yet concise. The convention is to use dash in place of whitespace, unless it's a word + abbreviation, in which case nix the spaces. Think about names that allow the repo live peacefully together with webnn, possibly get together with it in the future.

To start bikeshedding, here are some suggestions:

https://github.com/webmachinelearning/model-loader
https://github.com/webmachinelearning/load-model
https://github.com/webmachinelearning/load-run-model

Using GH Pages hosting, the spec will appear at:
https://webmachinelearning.github.io/<repo-name>

Comments welcome! I know everyone has an opinion when we talk about naming things :-)

[jbingham]

Agree that ml-inference-api is not a great name. The most descriptive is load-run-model, and model-loader sounds best to my ears. Either is fine for me.

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[anssiko]

Let's go with model-loader. It sounds nice and also https://github.com/webmachinelearning/model-loader and https://webmachinelearning.github.io/model-loader are self-documenting and concise enough.

@jbingham I'll get in touch with you offline to handle the transfer.

[anssiko]

The repo has been transferred and is accepting contributions at:

https://github.com/webmachinelearning/model-loader

[anssiko]

I think we have a plan now given https://github.com/webmachinelearning/model-loader repo hosts an explainer and an early spec draft and soon we also get some implementation experience.

As a gardening action, I'll close this issue. Thanks @jbingham for leading this effort!