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Leans towards switching to https URIs as early as possible with advanced warning to data users.
Materials
- W3C Blog post "HTTPS and the Semantic Web/Linked Data", 20 May 2016 (gist: keep writing “http:” and trust in infrastructure and software to advance)
- Harry Halpin: "Semantic Insecurity: Security and the Semantic Web", October 2017 (gist: switch now to https it's not too late yet and the web will be more secure immediately)
- 2017 "The use of https: IRIs on the semantic web" thread on semantic-web@w3.org (about https in vocabulary URI schemes in particular, gist: strong tendency to go for https)
- Discussion page of the Wikidata community 2017-2018 (gist: no change to https URIs. Possibly more due to the fact that the discussion subsided rather than an active decision)
- W3C Blog post "HTTPS and the Semantic Web/Linked Data", 20 May 2016 (gist: keep writing “http:” and trust in infrastructure and software to advance)
- Discussion 2015 in the W3C Web Annotation Working Group (gist: some statements for "don't use https URIs as identifiers" but discussion closed down for other, formal reasons)
- W3C Design Issues, Tim Berners-Lee "Web Security - TLS Everywhere, not https: URIs", 2015 (gist: the "s" breaks the web, use HTTPS but don't change the URI prefix)Discussion page of the Wikidata community 2017-2018 (gist: no change to https URIs. Possibly more due to the fact that the discussion subsided rather than an active decision)
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