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This group began as a collaboration between teams at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Old Dominion University, and more recently, Berkman Center for Internet at Harvard University, and Perma.cc.
To start things off, here are links to a couple efforts already in progress:
The Memento Protocol Specification (published as RFC 7089), an application-layer protocol to query & obtain prior states of an online resource: http://www.mementoweb.org/guide/rfc/
The mset attribribute (working title), an HTML attribute to provide temporal context to & locations of copies of target content for a hyperlink: http://berkmancenter.github.io/cache-link/mset-attribute.html
(issue tracker for spec)
Apart from getting the word out that link rot, content drift, Internet censorship, and denial-of-service attacks are actually problems worth mitigating, implementations of RFC 7089 and design of the mset attribute are our top priorities.
For this group, if you want to discuss specs and their implementations, it would be good to set up an issue tracker.
It would also be good to have an introductory blog post, explaining what are the issues you are trying to solve with concrete use cases.
Thank you Karl, we have already setup the project on GitHub’s & were hoping to use their issue tracker for the spec.
https://github.com/berkmancenter/cache-link
I’m going to let some other original collaborators handle intro & use cases when they get into the W3C group.