OpenID violates Semantic Web (according to them)

[Nat Sakimura]

FYI, it was precisely this reason that XRI 2.0 OASIS votes were shot down by
W3C TAG.
(Besides xri: scheme). The discussion between XRI TC and W3C TAG led to the
conclusion that XRI spec will use 303 (with link header, if needed) instead
of 302 redirect.

=nat

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran at hueniverse.com>wrote:

> This does not imply anything with regard to my own position on this matter
> but I figured people on this list might find the latest debate [1] over the
> W3C TAG httpRange-14 issue interesting.
>
> Basically according to the httpRange-14 decision, a URI cannot represent
> both a 'person' and an 'information resource' (i.e. a blog). A blog must
> return HTTP 200 while a URI for a person should not, but return a 303
> instead. This is a very important architectural principal of the semantic
> web according to the W3C TAG.
>
> The recent debate is about URIs for relationships (as in the value of a rel
> attribute in a Link header or element). The W3C TAG want the IANA not to
> serve 200 responses for relationship URIs, but 303s. It is a fascinating
> discussion, even if you think it is closer to an episode of Melrose Place
> than a technical accomplishment...
>
> EHL
>
>
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Jan/0114.html
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