Socialwg/WebSub CR
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Archived at: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-socialweb/2017Apr/0002.html
Transition Request
This is a transition request from the Social Web Working Group to take WebSub to Candidate Recommendation. The maintained HTML version of this request is at https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/WebSub_CR .
Document title, URIs, and estimated publication date
- "WebSub"
- Latest Published: https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/
- Editor's Draft: https://w3c.github.io/websub/
- Staged Draft: https://w3c.github.io/websub/cr.html
- Publication Date: 2017-04-13 (expected)
The document abstract
WebSub provides a common mechanism for communication between publishers of any kind of Web content and their subscribers, based on HTTP web hooks. Subscription requests are relayed through hubs, which validate and verify the request. Hubs then distribute new and updated content to subscribers when it becomes available. WebSub was previously known as PubSubHubbub.
SOTD
Standard Respec
Decision to request transition
- RESOLVED: recommend moving Websub to Candidate Recommendation
- http://www.w3.org/2017/04/04-social-irc#T16-02-02
Changes
The intent of this work has been to maintain interoperability with conforming implementations of PubSubHubbub 0.4. During CR's testing phase we will gather feedback on how completely this goal was met.
See https://w3c.github.io/websub/#change-log
Requirements satisfied
This functional area is included in the charter: Federation Protcol: A Web protocol to allow the federation of activity-based status updates and other data (such as profile information) between heterogeneous Web-based social systems. Federation should include multiple servers sharing updates within a client-server architecture, and allow decentralized social systems to be built.
Connection to user stories is https://rhiaro.co.uk/2015/08/api-requirements
Dependencies met (or not)
No known inbound dependencies
Outbound dependencies all stable: https://w3c.github.io/websub/#normative-references
Wide Review
- all issues
- Announcement to public-review-announce
- i18n review completed, three issues, all addressed
Issues addressed
Formal Objections
None.
Implementations
Being gathered at https://github.com/w3c/websub/tree/master/implementation-reports