Separate the definition of a concrete index from the profile

[RubenVerborgh]

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[jeff-zucker]

I don't have an objection to doing it this way. @timea-solid - thoughts?

[timea-solid]

@RubenVerborgh we discussed it over at the meeting and we have some further questions:

1. what kind of indexes do you think of? Is it going in the direction of automatically generated indexes for search purposes?
2. spec structure-wise - how would this separation looks like? What version would it have?

[jeff-zucker]

@timbl mentioned the phrase "Instance Discovery". This suggests to me a way to distinguish which parts go in which spec. The WebID Profile spec covers discovery of the typeIndex documents. The Type Index spec covers discovery of the type registration instances which are found in the type index documents. We would not need much overlap - a sentence or two can describe how to find the type index documents and generally what they contain and leave all the rest to the type index spec.

[timea-solid]

Thanks @RubenVerborgh for filling the gaps.
I had a good hunch of the type of indexes you had in mind.
In general, the team is for your proposal. The only remaining question is: is now the time for it?

[csarven]

Besides the consideration to separate the documents:

@RubenVerborgh (as well as anyone else that's interested), I can only encourage you to consider committing to a specific role for the new document, i.e., primarily as an editor and/or author.

[woutermont]

@RubenVerborgh, can you keep us posted as to where (and/or when) we can contribute more to the new index doc? Thanks!

[timea-solid]

@woutermont the new home of the Type Index is: https://github.com/solid/type-indexes Feel free to open discussions or git issues on the new repo.