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

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney@syndic8.com>]

> 1. I work at Harvard, not UserLand. And I just work there, I can't make them
> do anything in particular.

So you've no financial interest in manipulating standards for their product?

> 2. The train left the station on this with robots.txt. The world survived.
> Sorry, I noticed. I wasn't supposed to, I guess, but I did.

What robots.txt provides is of a rather different nature.

> 3. Instead of impeding growth, it would be great if the W3C did things to
> foster growth, like declare one top-level name to be reserved, and then
> establish a web app to reserve names within that folder. It would take a
> weekend to write and deploy. I'll help.

Sure, like the myopic limitations of XML-RPC?  Replete with it's arrogance of
being anglo-centric?  Sometimes Dave, the hard work people do in researching
things is worth fostering.  Not just flash-in-the-pan hacks for little more than
ego-trips.

> 4.Further, only optional functionality should depend on these names, nothing
> mission critical (as previous applications have done).
>
> That's about all I want to say on this. I've noticed how much effort one has
> to put in to innovate here. This mail list is broken. Sorry, I forgot. ;->

No, it's in response to your sudden jump back into the forum, presumably on a
quest not unlike your hit-'em-hard-hit-'em-first attacks on Pie/Atom.  Not to
mention your horrendous behavior re RSS specs.

There's tremendous value to be gained in opening more accessible links to data.
Having a reasonably extensible design is easy to accomplish and serves the good
of more than just one ego and his pocketbook.

-Bill Kearney
Syndic8.com