I'd like to propose a lab for experimenting with Web Architecture.
The Web Architecture Lab would be a work area for specifying and
experimenting with the interrelated shared agreements (protocols)
that make the World Wide Web a happy place. The goal is to produce
a central storage for Web protocol evolution, including both existing
Web protocols and new ones, that Apache developers can refer to,
comment on, prototype alternatives, and provide examples and test cases.
A secondary goal is to experiment with tools for integrating
public commentary with the specification process, similar to the
way FSF has integrated commentary on GPLv3 by interleaving
comments stored in an issue tracking system with the document
being commented on.
This is, essentially, a documentation project consisting of a group
of editors' sandboxes under version control. There are no releases
and most discussion, if any, will be on other organizations' lists
(aside from the chatter among the committers working on the lab itself).
A public version history is extremely important for this kind of work
in order to combat attempts to monopolize certain standards after the
ideas have been published.
DOAP is below.
....Roy
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