DIP-266 Activity Content "Mention" alignment

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Abstract

The current DSNP Activity Content spec uses id instead of href. Mastodon and other ActivityPub content use href.

However, it is unclear what URL can be used to identify a DSNP User. Ideally, it would be their profile, but this would require applications to resolve a URL to a Profile content item.

Motivation

Compliance with the W3C recommendation.

Specification Pull Request

TBD

Rationale

N/A

Backwards Compatibility

Breaking, in spec terms, but not an issue as no usage outside test data currently.

Reference Implementation and/or Tests

N/A

Security Considerations

N/A

Dependencies

N/A

References

• Mastodon implementation using href: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/lib/activitypub/activity/create.rb#L221
• Mastodon Documentation: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#Mention
• W3C Spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#microsyntaxes

Copyright

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Withdrawn. Semantics are sufficiently different to not use the href attribute.