Re: [syndication] XML Dispatching, 5335, and the Coffee Mug

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

In article <2F879980-4B15-11D6-B387-000A27836A68@mnot.net>, Mark
Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> writes
>What's needed is a decentralized approach. The Web way to do it would be 
>to dispatch a content-type on the client to a local program; that 
>program might be an on-machine aggregator, or it may redirect to an 
>online aggregator.

In the last couple of days, I've been going through a very similar
problem with Instant Messaging. I'd like to be able to construct a link
that means "start a chat session with X" that worked generically. But of
course, with 4 incompatible majors and lots of smaller players as well,
it's hopeless.[1]  

Once upon a time there would have been an RFC about this.

[1] More code, vicar?
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