Re: [syndication] RFC: myPublicFeeds.opml

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

You say it "isn't a good idea" and don't explain why.

TBL says it isn't a good idea because the owner of the site owns the
namespace, which makes sense, but robots.txt et al already offer features
based on common file names.

TBL is bucking a long-term trend here. Operating systems have always had
known locations for special configuration files.

Unless the architecture anticipates this, and has a single config file that
can be used by multiple applications (the Registry on Windows, for example)
then you end up with multiple files. Not much mystery to this. Even then
it's the same solution, just moved down one level.

You could argue that the user owns all namespaces, not just Web space, and
then poof all software would disappear.

Joe, it's a hopeless argument. There have to be some config files. Have to
be. Not an option. Try to get rid of them is like trying to boil the ocean.

Dave

PS: Bill Kearney thinks I'm a jerk and an idiot and should be outlawed or
run out of town or strung up on a tree. Danny Ayers thinks everything should
be in RDF. Maybe they can help themselves and save us the trouble of yet
another recital of their favorite memes. Or not. ;->



----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Gregorio" <joe@bitworking.org>
To: <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [syndication] RFC: myPublicFeeds.opml


> Dave Winer wrote:
> > A few weeks back, a question was raised by Jeremy Zawodny on behalf of
> > Yahoo. They have a large number of RSS feeds that they want to make
> > available to aggregators. They need a machine-readable format and a
default
> > location for the file. Further, this file should be able to contain
links to
> > other files in this format so that directories can be distributed.
> >
> > A format and location is proposed in this document.
> >
> > http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/myPublicFeedsOpml
>
> Please reconsider your use of a fixed URI for the location
> of the OPML file. While this is the same mechanism
> that 'favicon.ico' and 'robots.txt' files use, the use
> of hardcoded URIs isn't a good idea. Tim Berners-Lee
> outlines some of the problems with such an approach
> in this message[1] and this issue is currently under
> consideration of the W3C Tag[2].
>
> Thanks,
> -joe
>
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Feb/0093.html
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ilist#siteData-36
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