Re: [syndication] Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca>]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Dave Winer wrote:

> Ian, I'm glad other people are thinking independently.
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> I'd like to see RSS become a publish-and-subscribe model, connecting through
> SOAP and XML-RPC.

I'd like to see syndiation in general become like that. ICE is too bloated
for my taste, and merges too many different layers in the same protocol.
I see SOAP and XML-RPC being ideal for managing subscription/publishing
relationships, a 'syndication' format being appropriate for encoding
some important syndication-related data (plus pointers to the relevant
SOAP or XML-RPC interfaces), and at the bottom (or, rather, inside this
all), little packages of content.

More details to follow, when I've got time to write it up.

Ian
 
> I'd also like to see it be a better fit for tools like Blogger and Manila
> and non-web-based writing tools like Radio UserLand.
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> I'd like to hear content syndicators say what they're looking for, if
> anything, from next-generation RSS.
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> And I want it to stay simple, because that's its magic.
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> I'm interested in hearing other peoples' thoughts.
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> Dave
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