September 2024
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
9h 18m
English
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Appendix A. Activity Vocabulary Types
Each object type in this appendix has the following information:
| Information | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Extends | Any other type it extends (if any). |
| Group | Rough grouping, not necessarily reflected by the type hierarchy. |
| Importance | The relevance of this type for most developers: high, medium, or low. |
| Notes | Notes on what the type is used for. |
| Properties | The most relevant properties for this type. |
| To publish | Notes for publishers to maximize interoperability. |
| To consume | Notes for consumers to get the best behavior. |
| See also | Related types from the Activity Vocabulary and equivalent types from other vocabularies, if any. These might be useful places to search for properties that might be missing with this type. |
A lot of this information is my subjective opinion. I have a few biases: I want to see maximum interoperability between ActivityPub and AS2 implementers, and I want to see more implementations of cool applications on top of ActivityPub. If those aren’t your priorities, my opinions might not make sense to you. Caveat emptor!
I’m also one of the editors of the Activity Vocabulary spec, which is considerably more terse and general about most of these types. Whether we should have more specific, more elaborate descriptions in the AS2 specifications is an open question, but you should get a pretty detailed description here.
As you may remember from Chapter 2, Postel’s law for interoperability, by the internet’s great standardizer, ...
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