Re: [syndication] Sandard RSS location?

[burtonator <burton@relativity.yi.org>]

Ross Karchner wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Has anyone proposed a standard location for an RSS file, or
> index of RSS files for a site? I am thinking of an approach similar
> to a sites "robots.txt" file for a site -- a predictable location for
> syndication data.
> 
> (robots.txt is supposed to be located at the sites root directory, ie
> www.yahoo.com/robots.txt , and defines which directories are
> allowed to be indexed by software agents and which agents are
> allowed/disallowed)

I really think this is a good idea.  The RSS registries like
Moreover/XMLTree should be streamlined.

I would like to propose the following:

- RSSRegistry (moreover,xmltree,etc) just registers ocs files.  So for
example a RSSRegistry entry would just be http://SERVER/index.ocs.  This
would then point to:

/news/news.rss
/cgi-bin/fast.cgi
etc

This has the advantage of a central repository/registry for index.ocs
files and then each site has control over the actual files that have
RSS.  This is similar in design to DNS.

I would be +1 for seeing something like this.

Kevin

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