Socialwg/please review
Here's text to send to other WG's, trying to get them to review our specs. As such, it should assume they don't know (or really care) anything about what we're doing.
Subject: Reviewing Social Web Specs
I'm writing on behalf of the Social Web WG. Some of our specs are now stable, and if we would value a review from your WG.
While our primary use cases are often framed in terms of social media and blogging, the technologies may be broadly applicable.
So far we have three specs in or near CR:
- Webmention lets you tell a website you're linking to it. This supports ad hoc federation of sites
https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/
- Activity Streams (2.0) is a standard (and extensible) way to share a stream of what people do online (eg, "liking", posting a photo, etc)
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/ https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/
- Micropub provides a standard Web API to create and control posts on your own website
https://www.w3.org/TR/micropub/
Additionally:
- Social Web Protocols: provides an overview, including an explanation for how the parts fit (and sometimes do not fit) together. This document does not currently have any normative content.
https://www.w3.org/TR/social-web-protocols/
There are other also other documents not yet ready for horizontal review. You'll see them linked from Social Web Protocols, and I'll send another email when they're in or near CR.
Note that the group is producing multiple stacks which are not entirely compatible, reflecting the fragmentation in this space. Basically, we decided having multiple competing specs, while not an ideal situation, would still be a step forward.
If you think your group will be doing a review, please reply-all and let us know your timeframe. We'd very much appreciate the actual review comments being raised as issues on the repo for each particular spec (linked in the title section), and then a high-level email or summary issue stating when the review is complete.
Please feel free to share this call-for-review with anyone likely to be interested.
Thank you!