Re: [syndication] Re: SuperOpenRatings

["Robert A. Lentz" <ralentz@ralentz.com>]

At 05:24 PM 2/5/01, you wrote:
> I suggested that we add IDs to RSS 0.9x so that ratings would remain
> persistent.

Seems to me that we already have self generating unique IDs present:

        - The channel can uniquely be identified by the link, if not the 
title.

        - The story can uniquely be identified by the link, if not the title.

(Perhaps an element needs to be added to provide the author of each item, 
but then the author's name/URL/etc. would be the unique identifier there I 
imagine.)

Seems to me that anything which does not reuse one of these elements as 
part of the ID would add a cumbersome centralization, for the ID 
repository, to the process.

And why reuse the information when we can already just use what is present?

Or am I totally off base?
-Robert

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