Updated spec to latest poll results. Added a sub-section on security. Fixed consistency for some terms.
authorAndrei Sambra <andrei@fcns.eu>
Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:27:13 +0100
changeset 334 33da22445151
parent 333 8de015ffae90
child 335 f2efb8de3e19
Updated spec to latest poll results. Added a sub-section on security. Fixed consistency for some terms.
spec/identity-respec.html
--- a/spec/identity-respec.html	Mon Feb 04 22:55:01 2013 -0500
+++ b/spec/identity-respec.html	Wed Feb 06 12:27:13 2013 +0100
@@ -215,7 +215,9 @@
           editors:  [
                   { name: "Andrei Sambra",
                      mailto: "andrei@fcns.eu",
-                     url: "https://my-profile.eu/people/deiu/card#me" }
+                     url: "https://my-profile.eu/people/deiu/card#me" },
+                  { name: "Stéphane Corlosquet",
+                     mailto: "scorlosquet@gmail.com" }
                ],
 
           // authors, add as many as you like.
@@ -349,9 +351,9 @@
 <h1>Introduction</h1>
 
 <p>
-A WebID is an HTTP URI which uniquely denotes an Agent (Person, Organization, Group, Device, etc.). A description of the WebID can be found in the <tref>Profile Page</tref>, a type of web page that any Social Network user is familiar with.</p>
+A WebID is an HTTP URI which uniquely denotes an Agent (Person, Organization, Group, Device, etc.). A description of the WebID can be found in the <tref>Profile Document</tref>, a type of web page that any Social Network user is familiar with.</p>
 <p>
-A WebID <tref>Profile Page</tref> is a Web resource that MUST be available as Turtle [[!TURTLE-TR]], but MAY be available in other RDF serialization formats (e.g. [[!RDFA-CORE]]) if requested through content negotiation. 
+A WebID <tref>Profile Document</tref> is a Web resource that MUST be available as Turtle [[!TURTLE-TR]], but MAY be available in other RDF serialization formats (e.g. [[!RDFA-CORE]]) if requested through content negotiation. 
 </p>
 <p>
 WebIDs can be used to build a Web of trust using vocabularies such as FOAF [[!FOAF]] by allowing people to link together their profiles in a public or protected manner. 
@@ -372,6 +374,7 @@
 
 <section>
 <h1>Terminology</h1>
+<p>This section provides definitions for several important terms used in this document.</p>
 <dl>
 <dt><tdef>Requesting Agent</tdef></dt>
 <dd>The Requesting Agent initiates a request to a Service listening on a specific port using a given protocol on a given Server.</dd>
@@ -383,10 +386,10 @@
 <dd>A Service is an agent listening for requests at a given IP address on a given Server.</dd>  
 
 <dt><tdef>WebID</tdef></dt>
-<dd>A WebID is a URI with an HTTP or HTTPS scheme which uniquely denotes an Agent (Person, Organization, Group, Device, etc.). For WebIDs with fragment identifiers the URI without the fragment denotes the Profile Document. For WebIDs without fragment identifiers an HTTP request on the WebID MUST return a 303 with a Location header URI denoting the Profile Document.
+<dd>A WebID is a URI with an HTTP or HTTPS scheme which uniquely denotes an Agent (Person, Organization, Group, Device, etc.). For WebIDs with fragment identifiers (e.g. #me), the URI without the fragment denotes the Profile Document. For WebIDs without fragment identifiers an HTTP request on the WebID MUST return a 303 with a Location header URI denoting the Profile Document.
 </dd>
 
-<dt><tdef>WebID Profile</tdef> or <tdef>Profile Page</tdef></dt>
+<dt><tdef>WebID Profile</tdef> or <tdef>Profile Document</tdef></dt>
 <dd>
 A WebID Profile is an RDF document that is found by dereferencing the WebID HTTP URI. This document MUST be available as Turtle [[!TURTLE-TR]]. This document MAY be available in other RDF serialization formats, such as RDFa [[!RDFA-CORE]], RDF/XML [[!RDF-PRIMER]], or N3 [[!N3]] if so requested through content negotiation.
 
@@ -567,8 +570,14 @@
 </pre>
 </section>
 
+<section class="informative">
+<h1>Security Considerations</h1>
+Given that this section is non-normative, and due to the fact that additional attacks may be discovered at a later time, a collection of security considerations has been made available on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/Identity_Security">WebID Wiki</a>.
 </section>
 
+</section>
+
+
 <section class='normative'>
 <h2>Processing the WebID Profile</h2>
 
@@ -586,8 +595,8 @@
 
 <p>The following people have been instrumental in providing thoughts, feedback,
 reviews, criticism and input in the creation of this specification:</p>
-<p>Tim Berners-Lee, Melvin Carvalho, Kingsley Idehen, Nathan Rixham, Ted Thibodeau,
- Alexandre Bertails, Olivier Berger, Sebastian Trüg, Dominik Tomaszuk.</p>
+<p>Stéphane Corlosquet, Kingsley Idehen, Ted Thibodeau,
+ Alexandre Bertails, Thomas Bergwinkl, Dominik Tomaszuk.</p>
 
 </section>
   </body>