W3C

– DRAFT –
Linked Web Storage

13 April 2026

Attendees

Present
acoburn, AZ, bendm, eBremer, ericP, gibsonf1, jeswr, laurens, pchampin, RazaN, ryey, TallTed, termontwouter
Regrets
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Chair
ericP
Scribe
eBremer, ericP

Meeting minutes

Introductions and announcements

ericP: welcome and introductions

jeswr: running inperson lws wg f2f
… hackathon in parallel 27th and 28th
… if you want to help mentor...contact Jesse

<Zakim> acoburn, you wanted to ask about remote joining information

jeswr: symposium Thursday and Friday of that week

acoburn: people can join remotely for f2f
… pchampin if you can add to the agenda the zoom link

pchampin: i cant take of that

<elf-pavlik> I arrive to London on 25th, is there an option to join as an observer?

ericP: any other annoucements or intros?

Agenda for F2F #121

ericP: agenda in a PR#121

<gb> PR#121

acoburn: high priority things I want to front load
… starting point. keep in mind ordering for remote people
… we wont be getting to TR status in time...so rechartering...
… what will that process look like
… goals? scope?
… dont want to take up whole day

<ericP> Linked Web Storage Working Group Charter

acoburn: we have recommendation track which need significant work to make sure they all land
… Access requests, Type Index, Notifications, test suite
… a lot of feed back on ARs. some on TI
… I would like to move all of them along
… we will need a test suite. implementations not part of this
… ODI has been taking some of this work on

<ericP> LWS Access Requests and Access Grants

<gb> Pull Request 106 Add editors draft for LWS Access Requests and Access Grants (by acoburn)

acoburn: those are things we have committee to that need work
… couple of items in our recommendation track that aren't fully clarified
… spend some time working through those

<ericP> Type Index Section

<gb> Pull Request 115 add Type Index Section (by ebremer)

acoburn: some non-rec documents that need some attention
… primer, best practices...
… a solid compatibility document
… dont necessarily need them right away, possibly push that out a bit further

<ericP> UC&R doc

acoburn: PR just a proposal. any suggestions changes?
… anything remote people would prefer to see morning or afternoon?

ryey: I'll be joinung froim UTC +8. I will be able to attend mornings and early afternoon
… thats restriction from my side
… interested in AR, TI, notification for the first day

acoburn: would like to timebox feature section to an hour
… Rui we dont need to restrict and can adjust things around as needed

gibsonf1: I'm california time
… after lunch will be easier
… what happens when container is both container and data resource
… what happens when a get is done on it?

acoburn: I do think this is terminology. Can they be bother? is a disjoint set? My understanding it is, but it will require a group discussion

<Zakim> bendm, you wanted to suggest to move terminology/container vs resource first

bendm: suggestion to move this point to first day after lunch
… since it affects many things

ryey: TI after lunch is fine

acoburn: we can adjust on the day as well
… just dont want to miss anything major

Vocabularies #112

<laurens> w3c/lws-protocol#112

<gb> MERGED Pull Request 112 feat(vocab): setup yml2vocab for managing the LWS vocabulary and json-ld context (by laurensdeb) [editorial]

laurens: vocabularies relates to PR and took the liberty to merge it #112

<gb> MERGED Pull Request 112 feat(vocab): setup yml2vocab for managing the LWS vocabulary and json-ld context (by laurensdeb) [editorial]

laurens: non-normative document for LWS
… creates as turtle and json-ld. all non-normative
… update to github actions for how gh pages have been built
… we have context and vocabulary now being built
… we need a WG decision to publish that non-normative vocab and context

pchampin: we need decision to publish the HTML doc or rendering . For some reason the TTL and JSON-LD context artifacts are not covered by the W3C process.

laurens: will remove from my proposal

<laurens> PROPOSAL: The LWS WG shall publish the non-normative LWS Vocabularies as FPWD documents: https://w3c.github.io/lws-protocol/lws-10-vocab/

laurens: we weill have straw poll on the publication of LWS voab HTML

<laurens> +1

<eBremer> +1

<acoburn> +1

<ericP> +1

<ryey> +1

<jeswr> +1

<TallTed> +1

<pchampin> +1

<bendm> +1

<gibsonf1> +1

<AZ> +0 (I need to take a closer look to it)

tallted: resolution should include a date stamp on the documents

RESOLUTION: The LWS WG shall publish the non-normative LWS Vocabularies as draft note documents in their state as of 2026-04-13: /w3c.github.io/lws-protocol/lws-10-vocab/index.html/https://w3c.github.io/lws-protocol/lws10-vocab/index.html//w3c.github.io/lws-protocol/lws-10-vocab/index.html

ericP: anyone else want to vote? issues?

bendm: I have tech questions I will put in as an issue
… voc adds the domain of LWS container to activity streams ...doesnt feel clean to me...

laurens: have discussion to reference or include a choice we will have to make

pchampin: yaml to vocab tool developed in-house by Ivan Herman from W3C
… we can ask for adjustments

Access Request Proposal #106: Open questions

acoburn: any questions?

<bendm> nevermind my comment on vocab, I manually interpreted the yaml file as if it would create the actual rdfs:domain triples in the ttl file, but it doesn't, so my issue is no longer valid

acoburn: should we remove 7.3 Endpoint Authorization?
… will go into security guidance anything. dont know if we actually need 7.3

<bendm> +1 to remove, I prefer best practices than prematurely limiting future usage

<eBremer> +1 to removal

<ryey> +1 to removal

acoburn: 6.2 actions - in core of lws we define read, modify, create, delete...
… jesse suggested adding append

acoburn: I would suggest not unless its just bytes
… would require deeper parsing for other types

<Zakim> gibsonf, you wanted to ask about target

acoburn: doesnt mean you can never have append

gibsonf1: on the target, your including the URI for the resource and also having to tell the resource what kind it is. not understanding...

gibsonf1: easier to indicate the relation youre looking for rather than having to force

acoburn: idea is that when you give access to container but everything inside the container
… how they work in many other contexts
… if you give access to individual resources, it wouldn't include anything else

gibsonf1: in the storage approach, you would give access to full hierarchy, but consider the that someone could have rights to the container but not the children

acoburn: suggest commenting on PR to accommodate what you are saying
… Ben brought up a couple of times in the reviews but has not been fully integrated here...
… hard connection between JSON-LD and this data model
… there could be other serializations

tallted: Ive heard and read in past couple of days, people dont want to do X because it will break stuff
… implementations that call themselves LWS aren't really
… I want to be really careful that we dont say we cant do X, which is the best idea because it will break stuff

Type Index Proposal #115: Clarification of scope

eBremer: current proposal PR#115

<pchampin> w3c/lws-protocol#115

<gb> Pull Request 115 add Type Index Section (by ebremer)

eBremer: happy to change the name to distinguish from the SOLID Type Index implementation
… this index is a union of what you're allowed to see based on your credentials
… deref gives you the URIs and the total items (that you're allowed to see)

gibsonf1 suggested loosening to allow non-HTTP-link-headers

ebremer: gibsonf1, i disagreed on the ordering. you suggested search before types but I view types as orientation that then informs search

gibsonf1: we have search without types
… we could query types but just add other query parms to ehance to their desired expressivity

eBremer: sure; happy with extensibility

<Zakim> acoburn, you wanted to ask that everyone familiarize themselves with this and other proposals before the f2f mtg

acoburn: we want to reach consensus at the f2f to please read up in the next two weeks

acoburn: please familiarize yourself with the proposals so we can come to consensus at the f2f
… we should know if we're going to take these features to CR

Issue triage

acoburn: please review issues and respond if you have any thoughts

Summary of resolutions

  1. The LWS WG shall publish the non-normative LWS Vocabularies as draft note documents in their state as of 2026-04-13: /w3c.github.io/lws-protocol/lws-10-vocab/index.html/https://w3c.github.io/lws-protocol/lws10-vocab/index.html//w3c.github.io/lws-protocol/lws-10-vocab/index.html
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All speakers: acoburn, bendm, eBremer, ericP, gibsonf1, jeswr, laurens, pchampin, ryey, tallted

Active on IRC: acoburn, AZ, bendm, eBremer, elf-pavlik, ericP, gibsonf1, jeswr, laurens, pchampin, RazaN, ryey, TallTed, termontwouter