Re: [RSS-DEV] Re: [syndication] Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

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

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Jonathan Eisenzopf wrote:

> Ian Graham wrote:
> > 
> > As I said in my response on [syndication]
> > 
> >   Well, that's fine, but entirely avoids the question:  what generic,
> >   minimal set of information is desired in a data syndication message,
> >   independent of the data being syndicated?
> > 
> > To extend this:  syndication is more than RSS, and involves issues that
> > this list (nor the syndication list) has not talked about or worked
> > through.  As a result, the syndication list is happily defining a
> > specification without any clear understanding of what problem it is
> > supposed to solve.
> > 
> Well, let's hash it out then. What are the requirements? Do you
> have an idea of what this might look like?
> 

I am writing up some stuff on this very issue, based on a posting  I
made a while back (and that started the whole "Thoughts, d i questions,
and issues" thread ;-) ): 
                                                                                           
http://www.egroups.com/message/syndication/373?threaded=1

I am also hacking together a simple XML document articulating the ideas.
These don't use RDF, simply to avoid obscuring the ideas for those who
aren't familiar with RDF (and also for me, since I find it hard to think
through a data model when encumbered by RDF notation ;-) )
 
It should come out later today, but on the [syndication] list -- that
seems a more reasonable location....

Ian