CommentResponse:RC-1

Response to RC-1

Hi Richard,

My sincere apologies for how long it has taken us to respond to your comment.

The Working Group discussed various approaches to specifying HTTP status codes in both success and failure cases for the SPARQL. Given the variety of usage scenarios considered and the fact that the SPARQL 1.1 Protocol is now specifically specified in terms of HTTP, the group decided to allow SPARQL Protocol endpoints to use any appropriate HTTP status code, as long as the codes used are consistent with the HTTP standard. I believe that this very much lines up with your suggestion. The specification text in question is:

• http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-protocol/#query-success
• http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-protocol/#query-failure
• http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-protocol/#update-success
• http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-protocol/#update-failure

We would kindly ask you to acknowledge that you are happy with this response, Lee On behalf of the SPARQL WG