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I'm a bit confused, so let me see if I understand:

The URL points to the latest version of the message, but the UUID points to
the specific version that's contained in this file. Right?

> the 'interface' somehow defines
> how to generically access the Web service that distributred
> this resouce. The href gives the URI location, the 'type'
> the type of interface, and 'info' simply lets you know where
> to go to figure out what to do at this interface. Info
> would be human-readable, but could be a schema later on... =A0

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1) why do we need the URL for the specific version, if it's already in the
file.
2) SOAP and XML-RPC seem like overkill for the UUID. What's wrong with a
plain old URL? Or URI, if you must.

> Note that the
> 'distribution rules' might simply be a human readable document -
> since there's no way, in this model (non-ICE) to enforce these
> rules

Why is that? I don't see why not.

> =A0 <keywords separator=3D",">comma, separated, words ....</keywords>
> =A0 <category separator=3D"/">a/b/c</category>
> =A0 <category separator=3D"/">d/e/f</category>

Oh man, why do you make me do all that extra parsing. What's wrong with
plain old XML?

<keywords><k>XML</k><k>separated</k><k>words</k></keywords>

> this is metadata describing properties of the resource. Pretty
> general stuff, actually
[...]
> this block describes text/content related metadata about the
> resource.

What's the difference between stuff in "meta" and stuff in "overview"?

That's my first thoughts. More will probably come later. Anyway, thanks a
lot -- this (I think) is a really important step for syndication. I'm glad
somebody's doing it.

Thanks,

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