WWW4 BOF
Link Relationship Model and Syntax

This page is for planning a birds-of-a-feather meeting for the WWW4 conference on the topic of the World-Wide Web's link relationship model (the semantics that can be associated with a hypermedia link) and the syntax for describing link relationships in HTML (via the Link and A elements) and in HTTP (via the Link header field).

Issues to discuss include:

• How to define anchors within a resource without changing the resource?
• Should the URI syntax for fragments be used to specify anchors?
• Should we be registering fragment syntax with Internet media types?
• What semantics other than traversal are needed, and how to represent them?
• What relationship names need to be standardized?
• Given the above, what should the syntax be for HTML and HTTP?

• Murray Maloney prepared a discussion paper on Hypertext links in HTML for the HTML WG. It is a bit dated (I am told that Liam Quinn is working on an update) and it centers mainly on relationship names.
• The LINK element in HTML 2.0.
• The HTTP/1.1 specification defines the Link header field. This definition will be updated according to these discussions.