RE: [syndication] site-wide metadata [was: RFC: myPublicFeeds.opml]

["Danny Ayers" <danny666@virgilio.it>]

> >>Again, the proposal does not dictate how to structure URIs.
> (At least I'm
> 99% sure that Dave agrees with me on this
>
> It says how to structure a single URI, if you choose to have a
> collection of
> feeds discoverable this way.
>
> BTW, I didn't break any W3C edict by placing a myPublicFeeds.opml
> at the top
> level of my site. In fact, TBL went out of his way to say this
> was my right.

He actually said that the publisher should be free to allocate identifiers
and define how they are served. Not quite the same thing.

> And it's Yahoo's right to create a file with the same name in the same
> location. Again, not something the W3C would want to get in the way of.

But putting it in a spec and suggesting that *everyone* should do it would,
as TimBL put it, "breaks the web".

If you don't like the web as it stands, then you are free to break it. But
it isn't your right.

Cheers,
Danny.