Replying to Avatar Melvin Carvalho

Soon:

https://areweweb5yet.com/

They've been trying to canonicalize RDF for 20 years

RDF 1.2 is also about to hit, which is a whole new world of complexity

Props to fiatjaf who did it all in under a week!

Nothing about Web5 relies on RDF, from my understanding of their work, so why are you talking about it?

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I found the link to their reference implementation, and it looks like soon = now, at least for a fair amount of the features from that areweyet site: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@tbd54566975/web5

Also, looks like nothing relies on RDF, so what was all that about again?

So what's the canonical form of their JSON?

The VCs appear to be orthogonal/separate from any of the app data storage/interaction layer, and I see they primarily use the JWT variant of VCs anyway. The data storage/interaction part is listed as DAG-CBOR, so no RDF involved. But aside from all these protocols there's a simple JSON canonicalization RFC here people should use instead of rolling their own, imo: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8785