Congratulations to the FAIR team on thier launch. 1.0 is the lonliest number, so getting to to this milestone is something for them to celebrate and I hope the team behind it feels great about getting this far.
One of the best parts of getting to a public release is that you start getting feedback from real users. Some of that is coming out and I’m sure I will have some to add, at this point I don’t yet have a solid opinion on FAIR. What I do have are some questions I haven’t found the answer to while reading the protocol documentation. I am hoping someone can either point me to the documentation for each of these or answer directly while I continue to digest as much as I can:
- How does someone report a bad actor in a federated repository? If I discover someone who is acting in bad faith, do I need to track down every discovery aggregator, inform them independetly, and have each do its own investigation before users are protected?
- For this purpose, I’m using Bad Actor in all of it’s possible meanings including introducing intentional and unintentional security issues, hacked accounts, and people being jerks.
- What happens if different aggregagtors accept the same name for a plugin/theme? What can be done to prevent user confusion?
- I think this is also important since someone doing local development with one aggregator but using a different in production feels like a distinct possibility.
- In order to be listed in the plugin, is there a standard for the aggregator and the standards that they set for inclusion?
- Similiarly, how will these standards be monitored for potential exclusion later on?
- If the Decentralized ID is based on the repo, does that mean you can not transfer ownership of a plugin?
- The documentaiton states “Vendors SHOULD use DID methods that are future-proof for data portability, and which avoid encoding trademarks or potentially-ephemeral names or domains.” Does this mean that Github should be avoided since it is a trademark?
- Does FAIR have a concept of release confirmations or other 2nd factor for releases?
- How do reviews work in a decentralized manner? If I have an opinion on a plugin, will I need to share it with all aggregators?
- On a similiar basis, if reviews are going to multiple places, what is the plan to combat sock puppets?
I imagine some of these are questions that will need to get answered over time, and also that for some, today’s answer may not be tomorrow’s. As with all open source projects, I can only imagine FAIR will change over time.
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