Reconsider pros and cons of advertising the Registry Set in user's WebID

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Needs clarification
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Research direction

Start by reviewing the WebID requirements described in this issue and the six-comment discussion about advertising interop:hasRegistrySet. Done requires a decided position on whether the requirement remains justified and, if changed, an agreed specification update.

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Description

SAI does an excellent job of minimizing unintentional disclosure of information. Currently, Solid+SAI only requires WebID to advertise:

  • solid:oidcIssuer (Solid-OIDC)
  • interop:hasAuthorizationAgent (SAI)
  • interop:hasRegistrySet (SAI)

Requiring the interop:hasRegistrySet may not be fully justified. It leads to the disclosure of the location of a very important resource, giving minimal benefit. It pretty much only sits there for the very rare occasion when the user wants to change their Authorization Agent. As a matter of fact, it only optimizes that rare experience by not requiring the user to manually provide the location of their Registry Set to the new Authorization Agent.

I think that this tiny optimization for the already relatively rare occasions doesn't really justify the requirement to advertise it in the user's WebID Document.

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