Steve Bate

> ### the ones that might make sense > * ... > * `closed` I'm curious, what's the intended use case for `Object | Link` for `closed`? Someone asked about...

> the issue with `closed` is described in #542 -- the intent is to allow marking which resource is the reason something was closed, rather than just a timestamp or...

> ```js > "IsFollowing": "as:IsFollowing", > "IsFollowedBy": "as:IsFollowedBy", > "IsContact": "as:IsContact", > "IsMember": "as:IsMember", > ``` I like the idea in general, but weren't these terms dropped from the AS2...

> i don't particularly mind either way if the four terms are removed from context document or not, but they indicate the intent for compacting values as vocab terms. Maybe......

> In a sense, `preferredUsername` sort of supports language-tagged strings Yes, I was referring to [language *maps*.](https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/#language-maps). The `name` and `summary` properties have language-mapped context terms: ```json "name": "as:name", "nameMap":...

I think an update to the AP Note text (or a clarification in the Errata) is sufficient. I don't think a JSON-LD `preferredUserName` language map is needed or desirable. *If*...

> Although sure enough nulls do get removed by the JSON-LD playground: Yes, I saw that behavior in JSON-LD playground and also in Python rdflib library in the context of...

> the server applying the partial update (the JSON Merge patch) applies it in its original compact form This doesn’t seem correct to me. AS2 requires that *published* messages are...

> I'm unsure about how to address this issue. One possibility is to update the spec (if the WG is chartered) so that the C2S Update activity works the same...

Just FYI. I've put together a server-independent ActivityPub test suite and I've used it to test several servers, including onepage.pub. The approach is similar to the proposal Johannes submitted to...