#social 2016-07-12

2016-07-12 UTC
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ben_thatmust
waves
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aaronpk
good morning
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ben_thatmust
morning
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cwebber2
morning
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wilkie
morning
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akuckartz
Good evening :-)
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ben_thatmust
good afternoon (to cover anyone else)
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aaronpk
hopefully my wifi is strong enough today
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ben_thatmust
hopefully everyone can pull themselves away from pokemon go for long enough :P
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akuckartz
I wonder if tantek comes back. He left 5 minutes ago...
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aaronpk
he's on his way
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sandro
trackbot, start meeting
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trackbot
is preparing a teleconference.
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trackbot
RRSAgent, make logs public
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RRSAgent
I have made the request, trackbot
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Zakim
ok, trackbot
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trackbot
Zakim, this will be SOCL
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trackbot
Meeting: Social Web Working Group Teleconference
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trackbot
Date: 12 July 2016
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sandro
present+
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aaronpk
present+
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rhiaro
present+
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akuckartz
present+
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cwebber2
present+
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wilkie
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eprodrom
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tantek joined the channel
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annbass
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aaronpk
did tantek's audio just drop for anyone else or is that on my end?
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cwebber2
I can scrib3e
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KevinMarks
present+
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annbass
I hear him
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tantek
present+
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tantek
scribenick:cwebber2
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aaronpk
brb calling in from another phone
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cwebber2
tantek: is julian here today?
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annbass
a lot of background noise for someone
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wilkie
cwebber2: julien
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cwebber2
... I don't see him on irc. Well we have a new invited expert, hopefully he'll be able to make it to one of our telecons soon
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ben_thatmustbeme
annbass it is from tantek
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cwebber2
cwebber2: thx wilkie
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cwebber2
tantek: next agenda item is approval of minutes
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sandro
hears something about avacado in the background, someone in a loud cafe?
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akuckartz
avacado+
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annbass
that's what it sounds like ... altho now went quiet
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rhiaro
all is quiet, and waiting for a proposal for minutes approval..
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eprodrom
Ready for proposal
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eprodrom
+1
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cwebber2
... not seeing any +1s or anything
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cwebber2
... oh okay
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cwebber2
... thank you everyone
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cwebber2
... I declare the minutes approved
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eprodrom
cwebber2, can you do the resolutions for Tantek pls?
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cwebber2
cwebber2: eprodrom, I forget the syntax, it's just PROPOSED and then RESOLVED right?
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ben_thatmustbeme
you can just do RESOLVED i think
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cwebber2
RESOLVED 2016-07-05 minutes approval
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tantek
eprodrom cwebber2 if you /me in IRC you can chat without getting meta-chat recorded in IRC minutes
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cwebber2
aaronpk: there were a few things to address, I've been working on a new draft that should be ready to go, I've summarized the pages in document
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cwebber2
thanks tantek
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cwebber2
aaronpk: here's the latest micropub draft, I've added in a link to the test suite describing what the test suite will do, I've added conformance and exit criteria listing all features you'd expect, basically spec infrastructure we did with webmention
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cwebber2
... that's all in place now
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cwebber2
... this should be ready to publish as CR, but since there were other issues addressed as well, I'd like to publish as a Working Draft
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sandro
+1 publish as WD
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eprodrom
cwebber2 yes
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sandro
(while waiting for CR)
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cwebber2
aaronpk: so the accessibility group looked over all 5 specs, only had comments about micropub, they said they'd like examples of posts including accessibility info, such as alt-text on an image
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cwebber2
... I've opened this as an issue on micropub
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cwebber2
... main issue is there isn't a syntax to provide alt-text of an image, because microformats doesn't either, and it's based on it
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cwebber2
... so I've opened an issue on microformats to track that as well... so that's blocked until we can solve from MicroFormats side
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cwebber2
tantek: from SocialWG perspective of studying proprietary APIs, have you done any background research as how twitter, instagram, etc have provided alt-text of an image, or if they do at all? if they don't that's also useful info
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eprodrom
q+
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Zakim
sees eprodrom on the speaker queue
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cwebber2
aaronpk: I will do research on other apis
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cwebber2
tantek: ok
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annbass
breaking up Evan
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cwebber2
eprodrom: so I wonder if the alt text is really distinct from title or comment on the image, and if those are supported?
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cwebber2
aaronpk: I believe from the accessibility point of view, alt text is different from title or description
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Zakim
sees eprodrom, annbass on the speaker queue
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cwebber2
... from what I've seen of people who actually consume alt-text of images, it's a description of the image, rather than what someone says about the post
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cwebber2
tantek: that's my understanding as well, and twitter allows you to enter alt-text as a separate field in the ui
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cwebber2
... so from a ux perspective, certainly a deistinction
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Zakim
sees eprodrom on the speaker queue
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cwebber2
missed that...
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tantek
ack eprodrom
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Zakim
sees no one on the speaker queue
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cwebber2
aaronpk: the best path forward is to do some research on APIs and document that
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cwebber2
... and continue discussion on the github thread
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cwebber2
tantek: would you still like to publish a WD?
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Zakim
sees annbass on the speaker queue
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cwebber2
aaronpk: yes with everything as of today
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wilkie
alt-text is objective and a title is subjective. yeah, twitter is a good example of allowing one person to provide both types of description.
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cwebber2
tantek: it may be good to discuss inline that there's an outstanding issue and summarize and link to it so that anyone else reviewing the draft can go "oh yeah someone took a look at this"
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cwebber2
aaronpk: can do
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cwebber2
tantek: is there an ED the group can look at?
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cwebber2
aaronpk: yes online here --^
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cwebber2
tantek: looks like these changes are pretty minor, is there anything you'd like to call out?
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cwebber2
aaronpk: most of the text is the same, the differences from webmention specifically is summarizing other parts of the spec
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cwebber2
... eg the features, I created that from reading the whole spec and trying to describe a feature
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cwebber2
... everything else I think matches webmention pretty closely
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cwebber2
tantek: let's put a proposal down then for the request that aaron made to publish a new WD
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cwebber2
PROPOSED new draft of micropub at http://micropub.net/draft/ with addition of image upload alt-text feedback
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eprodrom
+1
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Zakim
sees no one on the speaker queue
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cwebber2
RESOLVED new draft of micropub at http://micropub.net/draft/ with addition of image upload alt-text feedback
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cwebber2
tantek: that leads us to AS2 updates, assuming there are no other issues from micropub
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cwebber2
aaronpk: correct
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cwebber2
tantek: so AS2 I assume is eprodrom
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tantek
topic: AS2 update
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cwebber2
eprodrom: sure, so we had CR transition meeting which went well
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cwebber2
... we had one major element from meeting, which was at-risk features
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cwebber2
... we could have as exit criteria which was that any features not implemented in at least 2 implementations need to be marked for removal
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cwebber2
... making it possible to have a bit more of a process in removing elements
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cwebber2
... we got pushback on this for probably some pretty valid reasons
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cwebber2
... first of all, we didn't actually use the term "at risk" which is the proper term for w3c
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cwebber2
... so we were putting every feature "at risk" but not flagging(?) them "at risk"
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cwebber2
... the second is the question of whether it makes sense that everything at risk, with the reductio ad absurdum (?) that nothing is implemented, or we have a small set of features and types that don't really hang together or have relationship together
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cwebber2
... so ralph has suggested that we identify a small number of classes which will definitely be in a future version, where we wouldn't be able to go forward without those types and properties
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tantek
s/ralph/Ralph (as acting Director for the CR telcon)
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cwebber2
... so what I did for this version is there's a new editor's version you can see here, which includes the term at risk
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annbass
s/Ralph /Ralph Swick/
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cwebber2
... almost everything at risk, which gives 4 core types (object, link, activity, ??, question)
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cwebber2
... and three types that almost would be impossible to get around using
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cwebber2
... and those are not at risk, and I framed it as the negative, that everything is at risk except these things
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cwebber2
... this could meet requirement of meeting without leaving a smudge on the table
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cwebber2
... gives our implementers to give an opportunity to say "these are the types I can count on being there"
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cwebber2
... and we have a similar section in vocabulary, however it just links to the core version
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cwebber2
... so it's more of a "there are things at risk here", you can check which ones are in the core version
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cwebber2
... so that's the first item
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cwebber2
... the other item this week that was important was we got a good list of issues from the i18n working group
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cwebber2
... most of these were addressed by James, who did an omnibus pull request over the weekend, he can't be with us this time around, but what we have is a number of items about i18n in activitystreams
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cwebber2
... thanks a lot to rhiaro for fagging the i18n ones
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cwebber2
... thanks a lot to rhiaro for flagging the i18n ones
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rhiaro
I didn't label them, I guess Richard did
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cwebber2
... second was using particular normative references
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cwebber2
... we switched rfc??? to ????
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cwebber2
... and RFC<etc> to <etc>
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cwebber2
... there was a second class about how to do things like identifying direction and language of a document
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cwebber2
... so I think none of these will be controvercial
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eprodrom
q?
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Zakim
sees no one on the speaker queue
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cwebber2
... the one normative recommendation was that if there was not a way to identify the default language for a document that we recommend that implementers use the named map / content map / ** map properties rather than their default version
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eprodrom
{"name": "Evan Prodromou"}
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eprodrom
{"nameMap": {"en": "Evan Prodromou"}}
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cwebber2
... so instead of having {"name": "Evan Prodromou"} we'd have {"nameMap": {"en": "Evan Prodromou"}}
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cwebber2
... we had originally typed out nameMap / summaryMap / etc to have multiple translations for a property
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cwebber2
... it was recommended that if we could not show the translations? for a document, we should use these by default
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eprodrom
{"@context": {"@language": "en"}}
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cwebber2
... it is possible to set the default language for a json-ld document
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cwebber2
... so you specify the language in the context
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eprodrom
{"nameMap": {"en": "Evan Prodromou"}}
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Zakim
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cwebber2
... james noted that there are some implmeentations that will not be using the json-ld structure, and so he recommended that we use the longer mechanisms
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cwebber2
... he actually had text that said which we should use the map version
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cwebber2
... my feeling is that these map versions... that was a normative change, deprecated properties replaced them with these map ones
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cwebber2
... I think that instead we should suggest we should use the default language mechanism
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Zakim
sees cwebber on the speaker queue
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cwebber2
... so I removed that normative change and I'd like to get some guidance
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Zakim
sees cwebber, sandro on the speaker queue
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cwebber2
... so we have a case where the editors are not in agreement
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Zakim
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rhiaro
scribenick: rhiaro
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rhiaro
cwebber2: A question for Evan - are you suggesting we use the json-ld style of content mapping?
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rhiaro
eprodrom: for default language?
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rhiaro
... That is the way you set the dfeault language for AS2 documents, we already do
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rhiaro
... Thee question is should we make it a SHOULD to use the nameMap, contentMap, summaryMap, descriptionMap
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rhiaro
... The reason we would do that is for implementation that refuses to look in that context for the default language
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akuckartz
favors the proposal made by eprodrom
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rhiaro
cwebber2: I don't have a strong opinion. I think that it's not a bad thing or very hard even if you're not using a json-ld processor to look in that context
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rhiaro
... Assuming that you're not using.... I don't have a strong opinion
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Zakim
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tantek
ack cwebber2
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Zakim
sees cwebber, sandro on the speaker queue
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tantek
ack cwebber
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Zakim
sees sandro on the speaker queue
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Zakim
sees sandro on the speaker queue
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tantek
ack sandro
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cwebber2
scribenick: cwebber2
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cwebber2
sandro: as clarification eprodrom, you say we already have the language thing, but that's a recent patch, right?
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cwebber2
eprodrom: well it's inherit in json-ld
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cwebber2
sandro: but it's never mentioned for activitystreams
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cwebber2
... so I agree with the essence of your proposal, I think suggesting everyone look at the map versions of properties is too painful
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cwebber2
... but I wonder if we can't do the @context language without the json-ld caveat
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cwebber2
... and suggest that everyone SHOULD provide a @context language, and every reader MUST check the @context language
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cwebber2
eprodrom: so we recommend that people use the @(context: )language?
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cwebber2
sandro: yes
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cwebber2
eprodrom: I thiiink that that makes sense, but some examples will need to change
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cwebber2
sandro: yeah, in the real world that may be a change, but
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Zakim
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cwebber2
eprodrom: that could be a search and replace I think, it's just a question of do we want to have happen
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eprodrom
"unk"
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Zakim
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cwebber2
eprodrom: another possibility is that if we use a language tag which means unknown, that could be somethign we use here to specify that if there is not a language tag, assume it's UND (undetermined)
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cwebber2
sandro: then we wouldn't need to change the examples
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cwebber2
eprodrom: we should probably change the examples anyway
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cwebber2
sandro: yeah
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rhiaro
Do we also need to alias @language to language to match everything else too?
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cwebber2
eprodrom: it's nice to have it slim, but now we're making it a bit more complicated
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cwebber2
... and I think that's okay
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eprodrom
"language"
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Zakim
sees cwebber, rhiaro on the speaker queue
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cwebber2
... the other option is to include a first class property
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Zakim
sees cwebber, rhiaro on the speaker queue
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rhiaro
scribenick: rhiaro
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rhiaro
cwebber2: I think I'm all for the suggestion that we make it a SHOULD when you know the language and we also say the implementations must look at @context to look for it. It's not too tough to look there even if you're not using json-ld
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rhiaro
... But I'm not sure that we should change every example in the activitystreams doc to include an @context with the language property, the reason being that there's a classic problem where people start wanting to provide a language with content they don't know, and suddenly you have a bunch of content in another language tagged as English because the programmer was lazy
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rhiaro
... I think it's okay ot have some examples int here that might reflect that user submitted content is probably unknown in most cases
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sandro
+1 cwebber2 important to avoid giving @language when system doesn't know it!
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rhiaro
eprodrom: Interesting point
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tantek
I agree with cwebber2 about not forcing a default language for exactly that point
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Zakim
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tantek
ack cwebber
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Zakim
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sandro
q- cwebber2
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Zakim
sees rhiaro on the speaker queue
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tantek
ack rhiaro
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Zakim
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Zakim
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cwebber2
phone is messed up
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cwebber2
I have to reboot
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cwebber2
my phone
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cwebber2
so I can't scribe
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tantek
hold on
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eprodrom
If you are typing, please mute!
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cwebber2
sorry, I was typing that I needed to shut down my phone, which had gone bonkers mid-call and I couldn't do anything to mute it
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tantek
scribenick: rhiaro
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rhiaro
rhiaro: I was thinking we can just alias @language to language and put the language tag on objects
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tantek
phones that go bonkers, that's our present/future :/
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rhiaro
sandro: The @language doesn't go on objects it goes in the context so that doesn't work
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rhiaro
eprodrom: I'm not sure how that would work
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Zakim
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rhiaro
sandro: It looks like in json-ld it can go in the ocntent if you're using the expanded form, but since you're using the compacted form there's no place for the language to go so it has to go in the context
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rhiaro
tantek: sounds like there's more non-trivial discussion, so we can move on to other points. Do we have a github issue for this?
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rhiaro
eprodrom: yes
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rhiaro
... There is the question, I'm not exactly sure what happens next, but I think we push back publication. When do we make our decisions here and then go forward? Or do we fix after we publish?
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rhiaro
tantek: the first part is there is non-trivial discusison, we're not going to get an answer on this telecon. We allow people to continue iterating on that issue, specifically cwebber2, rhiaro and sandro to chip in more
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rhiaro
... Second is about publishing. Either we decide to publish with this issue outstanding in which case we may want to call it out explicitly in the draft
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rhiaro
... Alternatively, up to you evan, is to wait to publish to resolve this issue first, then incorporate
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rhiaro
eprodrom: At this point we can publish a working draft that *evan is cutting out*
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tantek
can't hear evan, very choppy
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rhiaro
eprodrom I lost you
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akuckartz
hears noise
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annbass
pretty impossible, Evan
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rhiaro
... James needs to be here?
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tantek
something about not wanting to override James
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tantek
without James in the room
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eprodrom
I'd like to publish a WD and then look at CR next week
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rhiaro
sandro: I think I heard Evan say he wasn't comfortable overriding one of James's decisions without James, so sounds like we need to wait until next week until James is back online and we can get his attention
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rhiaro
... Sounds like wer'e close to a consensus
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rhiaro
tantek: sounds like you had a similar approach, just figuring out syntax
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rhiaro
sandro: No question what the syntax is. I don't believe there's a design decision
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rhiaro
eprodrom: We've got two feet on the ground and it's which we want to lean on. I'd like to publish what we have as an ED as a WD, and that will make it easier for review
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rhiaro
... With James's changes and the new at risk language
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rhiaro
... Just won't have the normative change to recommend using the map properties
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rhiaro
tantek: Can we call that out as an issue inline
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rhiaro
eprodrom: Yep
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tantek
PROPOSED: publish AS2 documents as WDs with calling out issue https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues/341 inline in the appropriate place in the document(s)
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rhiaro
... Perfect
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eprodrom
+1
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tantek
RESOLVED: publish AS2 documents as WDs with calling out issue https://github.com/w3c/activitystreams/issues/341 inline in the appropriate place in the document(s)
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rhiaro
tantek: is that the end of the AS2 update?
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rhiaro
TOPIC: tracking document status
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rhiaro
... Any editors like to provide updated status?
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Zakim
sees ben_thatmustbeme on the speaker queue
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tantek
ack ben_thatmustbeme
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Zakim
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rhiaro
ben_thatmustbeme: I was wondering .??. jf2 are we changing publish dates again?
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Zakim
sees no one on the speaker queue
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rhiaro
... sandro could I have an update of what are we publishing and when?
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rhiaro
sandro: So we could try to go ahead with jf2 by itself. I had been waiting for other things, but as you've heard the other things have been snagged on other issues
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rhiaro
... I guess we might as well go ahead and do jf2 by itself
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tantek
has had trouble with pubrules
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rhiaro
... Not sure of the status with post type discovery
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rhiaro
tantek: I've had trouble with pubrules checks so I have a draft but it's not passing pubrules, so that has additional work
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rhiaro
... I don't know if I can get those resolved in the next hour, but I don't want it to hold anything up
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rhiaro
... But if there's a desire to cluster publishing.. sandro?
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rhiaro
sandro: I think clustering is nice but not particularly important
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rhiaro
tantek: we're waiting on AS2 and micropub for WD, not going to CR today, need to address the comments for the things that came up during review
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rhiaro
... We don't have a new estimated date of CR for those, right?
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rhiaro
sandro: assuming james and i18n hopefully we'll do AS2 next week, but I don't know how confident to be of that
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rhiaro
... I think we will
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rhiaro
tantek: similarly the accessibility issue with micropub if we get that resolved we could do next week for that too?
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rhiaro
sandro: is the micropub issue blocking CR?
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rhiaro
tantek: aaron?
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rhiaro
... If it's a normative change that blocks CR
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rhiaro
aaronpk: the accessibility issue asks for examples
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rhiaro
... So I belive that doesn't intend to block CR
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rhiaro
tantek: to be fair if their request is for examples of something the spec doesn't support, and the spec requires a change, that's a CR blocker
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rhiaro
... We know of an outstanding normative change
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rhiaro
... Can you provide an example without altering the featureset of micropub?
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rhiaro
aaronpk: I guess technically no because it relies on microformats specifying how to do that
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tantek
is having trouble hearing KevinMarks
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rhiaro
KevinMarks: there is a way to ?? content and that will just ???? markup
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rhiaro
KevinMarks you're underwater
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rhiaro
... The issue is do we need to define a more detailed set of properties for photo posts
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rhiaro
aaronpk: I do think it needs to be handled explicitly
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rhiaro
... alttext shouldn't be mixed with the content of a post
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rhiaro
KevinMarks: The content is HTML
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KevinMarks
let me type that
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rhiaro
tantek: if the editor thinks this should be handled normatively that means it's a normative change
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rhiaro
... That's potentially possible for next week. aaron do you think you can do the resolution of this and any dependant issues by next week?
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KevinMarks
micropub parsing via microfomats can bring in the source html of posts via e-content
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rhiaro
aaronpk: I think so, as long as we can make quick progress on the microformats side
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rhiaro
tantek: Sounds like we may be abel to push everything forward a week
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rhiaro
... Okay by me for PTD
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rhiaro
... Ben is that okay for you for jf2?
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rhiaro
ben_thatmustbeme: Fine waiting a week
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KevinMarks
that will preserve alt, figure, longdesc, aria any accessible html markup
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rhiaro
tantek: new goal is to get everything in place for next week
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rhiaro
... Please resolve any normative issues in github ahead of time
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rhiaro
... That leaves SWP and AP
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rhiaro
<rhiaro> No change on SWP
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rhiaro
cwebber2: I've been pushing pretty hard on getting an implementation out there and am pretty close to giving a usable draft
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KevinMarks
the specfic issue will be for parsing photo explicitly, and if we need to define a new object for those to hold richer metadata in parsed form
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ben_thatmustbeme
sandro, i'm assuming you want me to rewrite those staged version with the new date (7/19)
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rhiaro
tantek: by next week?
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cwebber2
and then my phone went out
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cwebber2
tantek, sure
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cwebber2
tantek, I hope so :)
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rhiaro
tantek: We resolved last week to accept LDN as ED
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rhiaro
<rhiaro> We've got issues we're working through, and would like to go to FPWD soon, next week
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rhiaro
tantek: Any more urgent issue?
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annbass
excellent job(s) everyone -- kudos!
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rhiaro
... Lots of work for everyone to do for next week
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rhiaro
... If you're interested in changes happening, please review the changes as they're happening
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rhiaro
... Talk next week
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akuckartz
thanks and bye!
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ben_thatmustbeme
same bat time, same bat channel
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wilkie
thanks all!
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annbass
thanks tantek, cwebber2 and rhiaro
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wilkie
rhiaro++
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Loqi
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wilkie
cwebber2++
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Loqi
cwebber2 has 64 karma
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tantek
rhiaro++
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Loqi
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tantek
cwebber2++
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Loqi
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ben_thatmustbeme
looks to tantek to tell trackbot to end the meeting since he got flack for it last time :P
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tantek
trackbot, end meeting
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Zakim
As of this point the attendees have been sandro, aaronpk, rhiaro, akuckartz, cwebber, csarven, wilkie, eprodrom, annbass, ben_thatmustbeme, KevinMarks, tantek
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leaving. As of this point the attendees have been sandro, aaronpk, rhiaro, akuckartz, cwebber, csarven, wilkie, eprodrom, annbass, ben_thatmustbeme, KevinMarks, tantek
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rhiaro
Y'all, LDN just became a more reliable way to get hold of me than email if you like messaging via curl :) http://rhiaro.co.uk/2016/07/ping-me
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aaronpk
omg why does https://linkedresearch.org/ldn/ ask for my browser cert
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aaronpk
very cool though
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rhiaro
aaronpk: oh because the annotation on there is currently stored on a solid server which doesn't know how to not bother trying to auth you for public stuff
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rhiaro
That's been fixed in the new server, we need to update
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aaronpk
:sigh:
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rhiaro
An unfortunate hindrance that is nothing to do with the notification itself
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rhiaro
Also certs are going away altogether sooooon
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aaronpk
what's the new thing?
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rhiaro
Openid connect
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rhiaro
But there's still a herd of yaks to shave
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tantek
rhiaro: is the discussion of OpenID connect vs alternatives documented anywhere? E.g. last I'd heard, IndieAuth was being considered
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rhiaro
So were those three at 15 past the last hour from you? I got them on my walk home, it was very exciting
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rhiaro
but they're all anonymous
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rhiaro
tantek: extensively on various whiteboards in our office, but presumably somewhere else as well, I'll check with dmitriz. I believe the main reason for openidconnect was the multiple existing implementations of services and libraries. I've been out of the loop on the actual dev of the auth stuff for the last month or so though
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tantek
rhiaro, yes was wondering if anyone captured anything citable/linkable online
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rhiaro
The indieauth refinements and openidconnect refinements of oauth2 are actually pretty similar if I understand correctly
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tantek
resists making his usual joke of ask LD folks for *links*.
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rhiaro
notes that that emote was actually not resisting at all :p
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tantek
wishes it was just a joke :P
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tantek
The biggest problem with openid connect is that it seems to be following the same multiple central silos (who don't accept each other's identifiers) antipattern that openid did
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tantek
let me know if you find two big "implementations of services" who actually "peer", that is, both produce and consume each others identities. until then, OpenID Connect is no better "socially" or in a distributed/decentralized fashion than OpenID 1 or 2 etc.
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rhiaro
I'm not well versed in the details, but I thought it used emails as identifiers
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tantek
also seriously? "multiple existing implementations of services and libraries" [citation needed]
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rhiaro
oh okay, when I was looking I found a library in Python and PHP, and dmitriz is using a nodejs one in the solid implementation
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tantek
anyway, yeah, just sounds like another decision made without documenting research in a place online citable by URL
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tantek
rhiaro: "implementations of ***services***"
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tantek
anyway, I'll wait for the online documentation, otherwise, I'll accept that "whiteboarding" is the decisioning making methodology that was used (and what that entails).
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rhiaro
I would hate to mispresent how things are because I'm ill informed. I'll stop talking about it.
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rhiaro
You shouldn't take my word for it
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tantek
rhiaro: if you can't easily find it / link to it, that's evidence of the problem
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tantek
someone who is as "close to" the problem/discussions as you
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tantek
means zero hope for any of the rest of us (discoverability)
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rhiaro
I shouldn't have said anything
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tantek
you mean about "Also certs are going away altogether sooooon" ?
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rhiaro
But while I'm looking at it, there's a list of implementations here and to what type of conformance they have (to what extent they talk to each other, I think) http://openid.net/certification/
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