Re: shared feed lists

["tappnel" <app@mplode.com>]

For the sake of discussion here is something related that James Snell wrote up on 
auto-discovery of feeds and other services[1]. It stems from Jeremy's original post on 
RSS autodiscovery a month ago. I commented earlier today here.[2] In short, James 
put up a rough draft of a format he is calling Automatic Discovery indeX (ADX). In 
short, ADX is stright-forward, inclusive to other formats and services, can be 
validated and builds on the prior art of WSIL.

Intelligent and constructive feedback welcome.

As for the debate to how to find auto-discovery I'm somewhat on the fence. I just 
assume use index.* for the file name. I think as Jeremy suggests will have to support 
multiple forms. For instance in James' piece he suggests using DNS Service 
Discovery. I'm personally not sure about this method because most users will not be 
able to do this for one reason or another. However it may be quite attractive to some 
like Yahoo! who clearly has the access and expertise. Yet another method of 
discoverying feeds or a feeds list that has not been discussed is through a public 
directory service like Syndic8 or other.

<tim/>

[1] http://www.snellspace.com/blog/archivesNew/000065.html
[2] http://www.mplode.com/tima/archives/000321.html