W3C

– DRAFT –
RDF-star WG meeting

11 June 2026

Attendees

Present
AZ, doerthe, Dominik_T, gtw, j22, ktk, lisp, niklasl, ora, pchampin, pfps, Souri, TallTed, william-vw
Regrets
enrico, fsasaki, olaf, Tpt
Chair
ora
Scribe
AZ

Meeting minutes

ora: I contacted Valentina Tamma, general chair of ISWC 2026
… she thinks that a joint session between TPAC and the RDF group would be good
… on 26 October 2026 on the workshop day
… it would be considered as a workshop in the conference
… we should give her a couple of timeslots to work on the programme

RDF Semantics feedback from the mailing list 1 2 3 agendabot]

ktk: the deadline for TPAC is next week so we must give feedback before

ora: pchampin, you sent something to Michael Schneider?

pchampin: the first message was already addressed

<ktk> PRs mentioned by Enrico: w3c/rdf-semantics#198

<gb> Pull Request 198 Michael Schneider's feedback (Part 2) on RDF-Semantics (by franconi) [Errata] [ms:REC]

<ktk> w3c/rdf-semantics#199

<gb> Issue 199 Michael Schneider's feedback (Part 3) on RDF-Semantics (by franconi) [Errata] [ms:REC]

pfps: there is already a PR that already address all 3 of them thanks to Enrico
… in RDF 1.2 Semantics we should see a PR for Part 2, and
… Part 1 is merged
… I don't know if there are official email responses yet
… Enrico has issues with Part 2 and Part 3

<pfps> w3c/rdf-semantics#196

<gb> Issue 196 Michael Schneider's feedback (Part 2) on RDF-Semantics (by franconi) [Errata] [ms:REC]

pfps: there hasn't been an official response yet [by the working group]

pchampin: responding to the email with a pointer to the PR would be adequate
… although not all people have Github accounts

<pchampin> to be clear: I was suggesting to point them to the PRs *on the mailing list*, and let them respond where they see fit (GH or ML)

pfps: somebody could already response to Part 1 which is already merged
… I can try to do it

TallTed: Enrico already replied to the last email

ora: do we need to discuss Part 2 and Part 3?

pfps: Enrico responded to the email on Part 3 explaining that Part 1 is done, and that we would not do anything on Part 3

Threat Modeling Next Steps

pfps: so the ball is in his [Michael's] court

<pfps> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-star-wg/2026May/0014.html

pfps: there is also a comment on Concepts from Michael Schneider

pchampin: I made a PR to address the comment on Concepts
… I responded with an email already

pfps: Michael is happy with the Concepts comments

ora: what do we do with the threat modelling? Updating the diagram?
… we decided for the syntax changes
… AndyS, will you make the changes to SPARQL syntax?

AndyS: that's all done now

ktk: on the threat modelling, the idea is to have what we have already in the documents and align it and present it to the security people

pchampin: from the discussion with the CG, this kind of things is never finished, so we won't have a final thing
… we will refactor the security consideration that we have in the document but we will not make something original
… I will work on this but not done yet

ktk: do you mean we will have a threat modelling document and documents pointing to it

pchampin: we will have sections pointing to the threat modelling document, shouldn't imply much change

AndyS: how much do we need to write? we don't have descriptions of actors of the threat. We should keep it short
… a diagram and a few sentences

pchampin: the conclusion from the meeting is that the current diagram is very broad and ambitious
… we could project the diagram to different parts as sub-diagrams

Horizontal Reviews Status 4

ktk: we were supposed to submit something but not done yet
… we quickly go through the reviews

ktk: first is n-triples

w3c/rdf-n-triples#79

<gb> Issue 79 Horizontal Reviews tracker for N-Triples (by pchampin) [ms:CR]

<pchampin> w3c/rdf-n-triples#107

<gb> Pull Request 107 implement TAG recommendation about error handling (by pchampin) [spec:substantive]

pchampin: this one has approval from Dominik_T and AndyS
… there is no breaking changes
… once this is merged, we can go back to TAG. Or we point them to the PR before merge?

ora: maybe this is easier for them
… do we have 2 reviews for that?
… let us point the TAG to this PR and when we have feedback we can merge

pchampin: I am happy to do it

ktk: the Security one is open because of the threat modelling issue

ktk: that's it for n-triples

ktk: next one is Turtle

w3c/rdf-turtle#127

<gb> Issue 127 Horizontal Reviews tracker for RDF Turtle (by pchampin) [ms:CR]

AndyS: there's something from i18n

pchampin: we can ping them and maybe then timeout
… we need to wait for the TAG so we still have some time, but could be quick

<AndyS> w3c/rdf-turtle#131 (comment)

<gb> Issue 131 The `\u` escape range in Section 6.4 (by xfq) [i18n-needs-resolution] [propose closing]

AndyS: the issue for several documents

<ktk> w3c/i18n-request#303

<gb> Issue 303 rdf12-n-quads 2026-03-22 > 2026-04-24 (by ktk) [REVIEW REQUESTED] [LC]

ktk: is 131 the same as 303 [link above] ?

ktk: do we have to react on that?

pchampin: the first one we address the second one is just a comment

AndyS: we could close some of our issues that are duplicates

ktk: n-quads privacy ok, security we discussed,
… no update for TriG
… that's all
… what's the status of RDF/XML?

<j22> The RDF/XML is progressing but is not ready for submitting. A section on rdf:version needs to be added and that is still in early draft

ktk: what would be the next target?

ora: what have we still got before we move on to SPARQL

pchampin: we have RDF Schema (REC track) and RDF New (Note)

Dominik_T: RDF Schema is ready to submit
… no issues during the last week, it must be quite finished

ora: in the REC track, apart from SPARQL specs, we have nothing else (+ some notes)

pchampin: we can start horizontal review for RDF Schema
… let us have internal reviews for it

ktk: to summarise, I still have to do the TAG's comments
… I missed the second batch about trig, turtle and n-quads, to submit to the TAG
… and need to ping the specific groups for update
… and if we don't get anything, we move on

Any Other Business (AOB), time permitting

ora: related to ISWC/TPAC
… who is going to attend what?

<ora> STRAWPOLL: Are you attending TPAC (in-person or virtually), ISWC, or none. Vote tpac/virtual/iswc/none

<pchampin> TPAC in person

<ora> iswc

<j22> none/semantics

ISWC in person (hopefully)

<Dominik_T> ISWC for 50%

<gtw> none

<pfps> ISWC, will attend TPAC session if it does not conflict with Wikidata Workshop

<william-vw> none

<ktk> virtually (probably in Asia)

<Souri> none

<AndyS> From TPAC - with a mild preference for Monday PM

<niklasl> possibly TPAC

<TallTed> remote to whichever may provide it and call me :-)

<doerthe> possibly iswc

pfps: try not to have the TPAC/ISWC session conflict with Wikidata workshop

<Zakim> gtw, you wanted to ask AOB issue on several of the documents

gtw: in all of format documents, we have a media type section
… is there a W3C policy to whether we can get rid of the MAC piece that noone is using

AndyS: I think we should remove it, it's outdated

<Dominik_T> +1

gtw: removing this part from the spec would not prevent one from using a Mac OS 9 system to do its job

gtw: I'm happy to propose PRs to address this

<TallTed> again, no objection to removing this note from our specs

ora: anything else?

<Dominik_T> I already mentioned earlier my work on a Turtle-like implementation for RDF 1.2, and a related paper has recently appeared here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711026002451

pchampin: the faster we plan the ISWC/TPAC, the more likely we can get the good slot
… we should tell ISWC organisers our constraints

ora: our constraints/preferences are Monday afternoon and avoid conflict with Wikidata workshop

AndyS: last year, Wikidata workshop was all day, wasn't it?

ora: how long do we want to have our session take?

<pfps> the Wikidata Workshop is likely to be all day

pchampin: it really depends on the working group
… for us, half a day may be enough, for other groups, it can last 3 days

AndyS: the primary objective may be outward communication, so half day would be enough

ora: we're adjourned

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