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

[Jeremy Zawodny <jeremy@zawodny.com>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:43:33AM -0700, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> 
> Put another way, the problem is with standards (whether a de facto 
> standard by a single vendor, or a Recommendation from the W3C, or an 
> IETF standard, etc.) specifying URIs for other people.

Amusingly, it's okay with e-mail addresses.  postmaster@example.com?

> It's true that they can choose to follow that standard or not, but
> software will be written assuming that that URI means something
> whether or not they do.

Well, there's software out that that thinks "default.asp" and
"index.html" means something.

> This has consequences for both the Web sites that don't support it,
> and the software that's expecting a specific behaviour without any
> agreement that it'll happen.

How many HTTP requests do you think we're talking about here?  The way
I hear some people arguing, you'd think we were going to DoS half the
web with this...

Do I have a way defalated sense of how popular this is going to be, or
what?

Jeremy
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