Socialwg/ActivityPub PR

Transition Request

ActivityPub

• CR: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
• ED: https://w3c.github.io/activitypub/
• Estimated publication date: 2017-11-28

Staged draft for publication:

Abstract

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content.

SOTD: Standard respec

Decision to request transition

https://www.w3.org/2017/11/21-social-minutes.html#resolution02

Changes since CR

https://w3c.github.io/activitypub/#change-log

CR was restarted to cover substantive and editorial changes from implementors, particularly Mastodon.

Issues

80 issues were opened and closed during CR: https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+created%3A%3E2016-11-17&utf8=%E2%9C%93 by 18 different people outside of the WG and 7 in.

Requirements

Dependencies met: n/a

Requirements satisfied: n/a

Wide review: Through GitHub issues, all addressed: https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed

Formal objections: None

Implementations

Implementation reports at http://activitypub.rocks/implementation-report/

All features of the spec have two or more independent implementations.