[oslc-core] Some issues with OSLC TRS 2.0 and alignment with recent LDP spec changes

[Steve K Speicher]

Current issues with October 2013 draft [1] compared with W3C LDP March 
2014 draft [2] : 

1. Base resources is a ldp:Container (should be ldp:DirectContainer) 
LDP WG resolved to no longer have a single general purpose ldp:Container 
that could exist on its own, instead it is a common base class to the 
other 3 classes. 
Proposal: change type to be ldp:DirectContainer 
Migration considerations: can always multi-type, add in 
ldp:DirectContainer and predicate settings along with ldp:Container 
Note: I don't think any consumer checks the type

2. Base resources use default membership predicate rdfs:member, LDP 
recommends ldp:member 
Proposal: change to using ldp:member 
Migration considerations: impacts clients, to mitigate, could return both 
rdfs:member and ldp:member triples, OR equivalency statement such as 
ldp:member owl:sameAs rdfs:member, OR have clients have this inferred. 
Note: impact to clients is minimal, near 0, due to need to change a string 
and there are not many providers. 

I believe these issues should be address directly in the OSLC TRS 2.0 
spec, just announcing and making it clear these changes have been made.

[1]: 
http://open-services.net/wiki/core/TrackedResourceSet-2.0/revision/3806/ 
[2]: http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-ldp-20140311/ 
Thanks,
Steve Speicher
IBM Rational Software
OSLC - Lifecycle integration inspired by the web -> 
http://open-services.net
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